[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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