Re: introducing a new architecture/machine; policy ? (and a question)

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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On 23-06-10 12:07, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 06/23/2010 12:03 PM, Graeme Gregory wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:54:21 +0200
>> Frans Meulenbroeks<fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> 2010/6/23 Graeme Gregory<dp@xora.org.uk>:
>>>>>>> Also I don't feel empowered to make changes in distribution
>>>>>>> specific files.
>>>>
>>>> Why not, chances are Angstrom maintainers would be quite happy for
>>>> you to patch angstrom*.conf if you ask us.
>>>>
>>>> Graeme
>>>
>>> distribution != angstrom
>>> There are more distributions out there.
> 
> Right now, toolchain selection is done in distro files not machine
> files. I agree this is not the clearest approach, however adding the
> toolchain selection to the machine files may have unexpected side effects.

Think of multimachine builds. What happens when someone else adds
*another* nios2 based machine with different toolchain versions, how do
I know which toolchain avahi_1.0_nios2.ipk was compiled with?
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