From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:27:28 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] toolchain-external: Add Sourcery CodeBench for Nios-II In-Reply-To: References: <1376999946-3314-1-git-send-email-ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com> <1376999946-3314-2-git-send-email-ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com> <52145B05.4080405@mind.be> <5214F192.50800@mind.be> Message-ID: <521514A0.9060303@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 21/08/13 21:23, Ezequiel Garc?a wrote: [snip] > Speaking of toolchains. Any recomendations on how to *choose* a toolchain? > > Should I safely use Sourcery? > Should I prefer Buildroot internal (when we add support for it)? > Which should be the rationale behind such decision? (aside from the > fact the buildroot toolchain allows to be tuned) External toolchain has the advantage that you don't have to spend time (about an hour) on building it. Internal toolchain has the advantage that it is configurable, and can be uClibc based and therefore smaller. The difference between uClibc and glibc is in the order of 1MB, so it only really makes sense when you want a really small rootfs. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F