From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:06:08 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] External toolchain: crosstool-NG instead of buildroot? In-Reply-To: <200912202237.58730.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> (Yann E. MORIN's message of "Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:37:58 +0100") References: <877hsh1l3i.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <200912202237.58730.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> Message-ID: <871vioytvz.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN writes: Hi, Yann> Hello Peter, and All! Yann> On Sunday 20 December 2009 20:50:09 Peter Korsgaard wrote: >> we had some discussion about working >> closer together with the crosstool-NG people, E.G. long term perhaps >> getting rid of toolchain building in BR, and simply use crosstool-NG for >> it. Yann> As you mentioned the subject, I think we should prepare both Yann> projects so crosstool-NG offers all that buildroot needs, and Yann> maybe tweak a few things in buildroot to efficiently use Yann> crostool-NG. Yes definately - Yann, I'm really sorry that I haven't gotten back to you on your mail from ELCE - Things have been kind of crazy here, but now holidays are coming up. Yann> The plans for crosstool-NG are a ~4-month release cycle, as 3 Yann> months is too short for me alone to handle. I think I can adapt Yann> the release cycle to more closely follow buildroot. In fact, I Yann> think that, to be efficient, crosstool-NG should be released one Yann> month ahead of buildroot, so that potential bugs can be fixed and Yann> a bug-fix release can be made just before the buildroot Yann> release. That way, buildroot can rely on an as-stable-as- Yann> possible release. Next crosstool-NG release is due for late Yann> January, so that should be a match for the next buildroot Yann> (planned February, I guess). Yes, that sounds good. Why is a 3 month release schedule significantly more work than a 4 month one? It should just mean less new development done per release. Yann> Apart form that, we could build upon the results of the BR Yann> developper day. Should I repost my summary to this list? Yes please do. Talking about developers day, Thomas and me are trying to arrange another dev day after FOSDEM (February 8) - Anyone interested? -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard