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

[Michael S. Zick]

On Mon July 19 2010, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Mitch, All,
> 
> On Monday 19 July 2010 03:50:54 Mitch Davis wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> OK, I agree that we can drop this patch for now, and do the rename later.
> "c-rtl" is not that descriptive either... Even in-contect, it took me a
> while to see what it meant...
> 
> Maybe smthg like:
> fill-me-that-fscking-staging-and-target-with-the-fscking-runtime-from-toolchain-and-dont-forget-headers-and-statics-for-staging-please-oh-and-build-the-toolchain-if-needed-while-youre-at-it-if-you-dont-care-you-are-such-a-lovely-pet
> 
> Hehe! Yes, I like that one! :-)
> 

This is supposed to be computer science, acronyms only may be applied -

How about:
My-Software, Vital-C, Run-Time. Direct, Digital Loading libraries? 
or which would be MSVCRT.DLL as an acronym?

Something short, sweet and descriptive; such as found in en_OpenSSL:
EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA
Which, believe it or not, is the plain text version of an acronym used.
Tack a: BR2- on the front of something like that and call it decision made.
;-)

Mike
> [ Thomas, I bet you, this time! :) ]
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Well, it will require some thinking...
> 
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>