[Buildroot] [PATCH] external-toolchain: BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC includes eglibc

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Tue Sep 25 13:46:31 UTC 2012


Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:39:52AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Baruch Siach,
> 
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:33:30 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> 
> > This is exactly what I meant to say, but the text surely needs to be clearer 
> > as you suggest. What feature do you think we need to mention as minimal 
> > requirements in the help text?
> 
> I have no idea, since I have never looked at what eglibc provides in
> terms of configurability :) I guess Yann can give details on this, he
> is quite certainly a lot more aware than I am about what the eglibc
> options are.

Well, after a little thought, maybe we shouldn't get into configuration 
details here and just say something general like: "Warning: using a toolchain 
with eglibc configuration lacking key features (examples?) may result in build 
failures, depending on your choice of packages."

baruch

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