[Buildroot] [PATCH 5/5] toolchain: rename base target for external toolchains

Mitch Davis mjd+buildroot at afork.com
Mon Jul 19 01:50:54 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Yann E. MORIN
<yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr> wrote:
> It is misleeading to name the external toolchain make target 'uclibc', as
> external toolchains can be based on other C libraries (eg. glibc or eglibc).

I understand your point about uclibc not being a suitable generic
name, but I'm not sure toolchain-prepare is the ideal name.  To me,
what this target does is guarantees the presence of the C run time
library (whether that be uClibc, glibc, etc).  Might "c-rtl" or
similar be a better name?  (Of course, in order to generate the RTL,
the toolchain will need to be there, as usual).

I can also imagine a scenario where one is building such a minimal
system that one needs the toolchain, but not the RTL.  What are good
target names to guarantee the toolchain, and the RTL, as separate
targets?

Mitch.


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