From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:23:32 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot maintainer and stable releases In-Reply-To: <1231268970.32308.230.camel@elrond.atmel.com> (Ulf Samuelsson's message of "Tue\, 06 Jan 2009 20\:09\:30 +0100") References: <87prj1v4dy.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <20090106140140.GA22854@zelow.no> <87aba4pj4w.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <20090106183243.GA28479@zelow.no> <873afwnu6n.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1231268970.32308.230.camel@elrond.atmel.com> Message-ID: <87prj0me6j.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 >>>>> "Ulf" == Ulf Samuelsson writes: Hi, >> WCHAR, LOCALE and LARGEFILE all defaults to off, so that's imho a >> pretty well tested. Ulf> I have been running with them on for a long time, since when I Ulf> last tried them OFF, there were a lot of packages which did Ulf> seemed to require at least WCHAR to build properly for ARM. Don't know about ARM, but the ~10 PPC configs I regularly build all have WCHAR off. Ulf> A typical issue that pops up from time to time is that Ulf> people build the toolchain with a certain configuration Ulf> and then finds that they need a different configurtion Ulf> to build a package, and do not realize that they Ulf> need to rebuild the toolchain for the changes to take effect. That's why those things depends on those toolchain features, instead of select'ing them like what we do for libraries. Ulf> It would be good to resolve this, and this is why I have Ulf> proposed to separate toolchain build. Ulf> With SYSROOT in gcc-4 there is really no reason Ulf> to induce people to rebuild the toolchain, Ulf> and we might want to support downloading a binary toolchain as well. A binary toolchain sounds to me like a serious support headache, but if you want to do it, feel free. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard