[Buildroot] crosstool-ng and uClibc toolchain

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Dec 2 14:56:50 UTC 2011


Le Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:44:11 +0000,
Will Wagner <will_wagner at carallon.com> a écrit :

> In fact the uClibc config you are forced to use has lots of settings I 
> would consider wrong.
> 
> Am I correct thinking these things are broken or am I missing something?

I haven't fallen into these issues as I'm not using the ct-ng backend
a lot (I do use ct-ng outside of Buildroot in general).

> Am currently working on a patch that does the following:
> - Allow user to pick uClibc version when using ct-ng
> - Allow user to select nptl when using 0.9.32
> - Supply better default uClibc config files (Using same config files as 
> for internal buildroot config)
> - Allow user to specify a custom uClibc config file

Those sounds like good ideas, especially the sharing the uClibc config
files between the internal build process and the ct-ng build process.

Thomas
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