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From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Reduce toolchain options
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:28:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87385bmrc8.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <550069E9.5060403@zacarias.com.ar> (Gustavo Zacarias's message of "Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:14:33 -0300")

>>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> writes:

 > Hi.
 > How about we kill non-lfs and non-ipv6 toolchains?
 > 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

 > 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.

Yes, I agree.

I'm also somewhat scared of forcing IPv6 support but perhaps it will be
safe, people using !uClibc have probably noticed these issues already.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-11 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-11 16:14 [Buildroot] Reduce toolchain options Gustavo Zacarias
2015-03-11 16:28 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2015-03-11 18:27   ` Gustavo Zacarias
2015-03-11 20:23     ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-03-11 20:44     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-03-11 21:43       ` Gustavo Zacarias
2015-03-11 20:45 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-03-11 21:40   ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-03-11 21:45     ` Gustavo Zacarias
2015-03-11 21:42   ` Gustavo Zacarias
2015-03-11 22:04 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-03-11 23:02   ` Gustavo Zacarias

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