[Buildroot] Disabling Synopsys ARC pre-built toolchains in Buildroot

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 17/04/15 10:49, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
>  [1] Buildroot defconfigs for uClibc are not generated by "make
> savedefconfig" which makes it very hard to understand which options are
> enabled and which are disabled compared to defaults.

 I think the only reason why this is the case is that uClibc didn't use to
support savedefconfig. AFAICS 0.9.33.2 still doesn't.


>  [2] Buildroot defconfig may contain options (disabled or enabled
> compared to defaults) that might be harmful (in run-time issues like
> performance degradation etc). Remember missing
> UCLIBC_HAS_STRING_GENERIC_OPT. This is I think a reminder of early days
> of Buildroot. And so blind use of Buildroot defconfig as defconfig for
> ARC might not work well enough.

 We're certainly open to improving the BR defconfigs!


 Regards,
 Arnout



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