From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:02:06 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] External toolchain built by buildroot no longer supported. In-Reply-To: (Grant Edwards's message of "Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:41:05 +0000 (UTC)") References: Message-ID: <87y6h0r5e9.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 >>>>> "Grant" == Grant Edwards writes: Grant> As of this commit Grant> http://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=3b7aee23f2ab732f06b8a090ca002fb102d547ee Grant> use of of external toolchains built by buildroot is no longer Grant> possible. Grant> Are we to assume that crosstool-NG is now the "officially supported" Grant> source for external toolchains? Long term I think users are better off with using crosstool-NG for their toolchains, as that has a more active development community. The buildroot toolchains work, and I do small fixes / version updates, but noone is really doing active development on them. As an example, GDB 7.x is out since October, but still not in BR (I had a quick look, but didn't get it to work). With that said, I would very much like to support BR toolchains as external toolchains if it's possible without too many dirty hacks (sorry, haven't been following the recent discussion about it). Besides the advantages you listed there's also the fact that it will make migration easier in the future - E.G.: BR with internal toolchain -> BR with external BR toolchain -> BR with crosstool-NG toolchain. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard