[Buildroot] [PATCH] toolchain/crostool-NG: mark as deprecated
Jeremy Rosen
jeremy.rosen at openwide.fr
Tue May 7 08:20:36 UTC 2013
>
> I don't have real comments about the proposal to deprecate the
> Crosstool-NG support, but I'd like to take this opportunity to unveil
> my plans about the internal toolchain support (I hate unveiling plans
> before the code is ready, but it seems like a good idea in this
> particular case) :
>
> (1) I am currently converting the existing internal toolchain logic
> to
> use the package infrastructure. I've already done it for
> 'gdb' (merged for 2013.05), I have patches that seem to work for
> elf2flt and linux-headers, and I've started working on
> converting
> gcc (which is the most complicated piece of the puzzle).
>
> (2) Once this conversion is done, I intend to work on adding
> (e)glibc
> support to the internal toolchain backend, so that regardless of
> what happens with the Crosstool-NG backend, Buildroot will
> continue to have the possibility to build a (e)glibc toolchain.
>
> (1) and (2) represent a significant amount of work, so don't expect
> those things to be ready overnight.
>
ok, thanks for the news, I was a bit worried that we had would have no
support for self-compiled glibc toolchain at some point (that was the
main reason I was using ct-ng)
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