[Buildroot] external toolchain and sysroot

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:04:33 +0000 (UTC)
Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  * We pass --sysroot $(STAGING_DIR) to every gcc/ld invocation, so that
> >    gcc/ld find the libraries and header files correctly.
> 
> Perhaps that's what's supposed to happen, but there appear to be a lot
> of packages where it doesn't happen (at least for some of us).

As I said in my other mail in this thread, yes, there are many packages
that are broken with regard to --sysroot. Packages that use the
Makefile.autotools.in infrastructure should all work, but for all the
other packages, they should be fixed one by one.

Cheers,

Thomas
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