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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] external toolchain and sysroot
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:42:18 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hq4gnq$pd0$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20100325233452.3794166b@surf

On 2010-03-25, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:08:49 +0000 (UTC)
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Based on my sample of three packages (two had the problem), I'm
>> guessing it's a very common problem.  It looks like the buildroot
>> developers use external toolchains that don't require a --sysroot
>> option. 
>
> They do. What we do to support external toolchains is :

Recent testing has confirmed that relocated toolchains built by
crosstool-NG can find library files without a --sysroot option.
Toolchains built by buildroot can't.  This explains the spate of
"missing --sysroot" bugs that affect people using relocated buildroot
toolchains and not people using relocated crosstool-NG toolchains.

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! You can't hurt me!!
                                  at               I have an ASSUMABLE
                              gmail.com            MORTGAGE!!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-14 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-25 15:28 [Buildroot] external toolchain and sysroot Yury Luneff
2010-03-25 16:14 ` Grant Edwards
2010-03-25 17:12   ` Yury Luneff
2010-03-25 17:16     ` Yury Luneff
2010-03-25 18:08       ` Grant Edwards
2010-03-25 22:34         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-03-26  1:04           ` Grant Edwards
2010-03-26 19:24             ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-03-27  1:10               ` Grant Edwards
2010-03-27  8:22                 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-03-27 15:05                   ` Grant Edwards
2010-04-14 13:42           ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2010-03-25 22:32   ` Thomas Petazzoni

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