From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: MikeW <mw_phil@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:29:52 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Buildroot] Using external toolchain / toolchain as package
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MikeW <mw_phil@...> writes:

> 
> Buildroot cannot build a required toolchain, but I would still like
> to use it to build everything else.
> 
> Is there a preferred way to disable building the toolchain, and to set
> Buildroot to use an external toolchain instead ?
> 
> (This is 'inside-out' from the BR docs which say how to use the BR toolchain
> from outside.)
> 
> Looking at the top-level Makefile, this looks as if it would involve
> edits to the file(s).
> 
> Regards,
> MikeW
> 

On a related subject, it might be useful if a toolchain could be installed
from a (special) package - this would allow prebuilt toolchains, or other
source packages (the one I'm looking at is the ARM EABI one from CodeSourcery).

Maybe it's all in there now, and I just need to look ;-)

Regards,
MikeW