From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:36:30 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Buildroot] External toolchain: crosstool-NG instead of buildroot? References: <20091218223139.2118763c@surf> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 2009-12-18, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Grant Edwards a ??crit : > >> The buildroot docs recommends using crosstool-NG to generate >> external toolchains. >> >> Is there some reason one shouldn't or can't use a toolchain >> generated buildroot? > > Theorically, Buildroot should work just as fine as Crosstool-NG for > generating toolchain. So far it seems to be working fine. I haven't figured out what the minimal set of required files is. Initially I took a snapshot of everything under output/staging. Subsequent makes using that as an external toolchain failed because it found files in output/staging/usr/share that it didn't expect to be there. I removed usr/share from my "toolchain", and now builds seem to work fine. > In practive, my own *personal* feeling is that the Crosstool-NG > community is spending more time to improve this toolchain generation > tool than the Buildroot community spends on the toolchain part. I have > the impression that they do a better job at following new upstream > versions, integrating necessary patches, etc. But again, I have no > objective facts to validate these feelings. For now I think I'll stick with a buildroot-generated toolchain. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm having a at tax-deductible experience! visi.com I need an energy crunch!!