[Buildroot] [PATCH 6/8] documentation: Reword introduction about external toolchains

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr
Wed Nov 24 14:48:57 UTC 2010


Thomas, All,

On Wednesday 24 November 2010 153840 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  docs/buildroot.html |   23 ++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/buildroot.html b/docs/buildroot.html
> index 9ea0374..a7dd8d6 100644
> --- a/docs/buildroot.html
> +++ b/docs/buildroot.html
> @@ -715,13 +715,22 @@ endif
>  
>      <h2 id="external_toolchain">Using an external toolchain</h2>
>  
> -    <p>It might be useful not to use the toolchain generated by
> -    Buildroot, for example if you already have a toolchain that is known
> -    to work for your specific CPU, or if the toolchain generation feature
> -    of Buildroot is not sufficiently flexible for you (for example if you
> -    need to generate a system with <i>glibc</i> instead of
> -    <i>uClibc</i>). Buildroot supports using an <i>external
> -    toolchain</i>.</p>
> +    <p>It might be useful not to use an already existing toolchain,
Are you sure you meant this  ^^^ ?

> +    for different reasons:</p>
> +    <ul>
> +      <li>you already have a toolchain that is known to work for your
> +	specific CPU</li>
> +      <li>you want to speed up the Buildroot build process by skipping
> +      the long toolchain build part</li>
> +      <li>the toolchain generation feature of Buildroot is not
> +	sufficiently flexible for you (for example if you need to
> +	generate a system with <i>glibc</i> instead of
> +	<i>uClibc</i>)</li>
> +    </ul>
> +
> +    <p>Buildroot supports using existing toolchains through a
> +    mechanism called <i>external toolchain</i>.</p>
>  
>      <p>To enable the use of an external toolchain, go to the
>      <code>Toolchain</code> menu, and :</p>

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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