[Buildroot] rebuilding a project on older commits

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Carsten Schoenert,

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:11:46 +0100, Carsten Schoenert wrote:

> Yes, this is the solution. Right now I build the toolchain with ct-ng
> inside buildroot.
> Is it possible to move this existing toolchain outside buildroot or
> should I rebuild from scratch?

You should build it once with Crosstool-NG outside of Buildroot,
install it somewhere, and tell Buildroot to use it as an external
toolchain.

> For the first two points I can answer with yes, but your tip with the
> /lib folder is the right one. This folder is empty, and this also in
> the output/target directory so it must be empty in the rootfs.tar too.
> 
> So the libraries in the /lib folder are missing there must be
> something wrong with the config of the ct-ng? Any suggestions where I
> have to look to?

That sounds really odd. Maybe we have a bug in the ct-ng backend, and
it doesn't copy the libraries? I would have to do a test build, but I'm
on the battery in the train for now, so I can't do heavy builds for now.

If someone could do a quick test build of a minimal system that uses
the ct-ng backend, and verify that $(O)/target/lib contains the right
libraries, that would be nice.

Best regards,

Thomas
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