[Buildroot] Question about Buildroot-Based External Toolchains with 2012.11.1

[Will Bickford]

I'm confused by problems I'm seeing when deploying a pre-computed toolchain using Buildroot 2012.11.1 for both the target and the toolchain. Previously I've used the external toolchain feature from Buildroot 2010.05 without any problems.

Related discussion:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.uclibc.buildroot/45427

It is unclear to me how I'm supposed to strip the usr/ directory from the toolchain archive. The naive approach (mentioned in the discussion linked above) results in a broken toolchain. Is there a documented way to resolve this problem?

Documentation:
http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#external-toolchain

Best Regards,

William Bickford
EF Johnson Technologies, Inc.
O  402.474.4800
E   wbickford at efji.com
www.efjohnson.com
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