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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:58:34 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot/toolchain: binutils
	external-toolchain gcc uClibc
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>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> Now, the current approach is certainly nice from a maitenance POV as
 >> there's only one set of options so they are always in sync, but I
 >> agree that it isn't that userfriendly.

 Thomas> The best option would be to compute automatically these
 Thomas> configuration options when using an external toolchain. But I
 Thomas> don't see how this can be done with how the kconfig system
 Thomas> works.

Not without running some kind of configure script to append Kconfig
settins when you're using an external toolchain. I don't quite know
how to integrate this nicely though.

 Thomas> Does something like :

 Thomas> config BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE bool "Enable locale" if
 Thomas> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT bool "Is locale enabled in your
 Thomas> toolchain ?" if BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL

 Thomas> works ?

Unfortunately not - That's the problem.

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard