[Buildroot] Reduce toolchain options

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 11/03/15 17:14, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> How about we kill non-lfs and non-ipv6 toolchains?

 Sounds like a good idea!

> It's 2015 after all, and the size delta is minor:
> 
> tar file delta, arm926 uclibc+busybox
> =====================================
> Threading (NPTL)        +153600 bytes
> Largefile               +20480 bytes
> IPv6                    +10240 bytes
> RPC                     +61440 bytes
> WCHAR                   +30720 bytes

 Could you calculate this with STATIC and thumb and also report the baseline?
IIRC a minimal statically linked busybox was only about 200K so the 20K
largefile is borderline significant...


 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> Benefits:
> * Less toolchain options to test/care for in packages
> * More bang for the buck for autobuilders with less combinations to test
> 
> Even though the size delta would be somewhat more (tiny though) when
> adding packages/libraries that's generally offset by the added size of
> said packages.
> 
> The only downside i can think of is badly designed packages that won't
> work well on a non-ipv6 linux kernel. These should be very few, if any.
> 
> LFS is a no brainer IMO.
> 
> Regards.
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