From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Buildroot] preserve toolchain References: <4C8FBA92.1020006@googlemail.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 2010-09-14, Marcus Osdoba wrote: > For a shorter development cycle I like to preserve the toolchain > generated by buildroot for the next run. I used to try to do that, and had many problems with it. As a result, I switched to using crosstool-ng to build the toolchain. > I naivly copied the output/toolchain to some other directory and set > the toolchain directory in the buildroot config. The bin-directory > does not include the gcc-binaries. Do I have to create links in the > bin-directory to the gccs? > > Is it possible to take the same toolchain for package build the next > time? I managed to do it, but it required a number of customizations to the external toolchain makefile, and there were still some minor issues that required work-arounds in a shell-script that I was using to do builds. I eventually gave up and heeded the advice of the maintainers: now I use crosstool-ng to build my external toolchain. > Can I recycle the toolchain generated by buildroot? Using crosstool-ng to build an external toolchain is the normal way of accomplishing what you want to accomplish. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Make me look like at LINDA RONSTADT again!! gmail.com