[Buildroot] [RFCv1 02/11] toolchain-crosstool-ng: remove support

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, All,

On 2013-09-05 23:27 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> In order to avoid the work of converting the toolchain-crosstool-ng
> logic to the package infrastructure, we remove it from Buildroot,
> since it has been deprecated since quite some time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> ---
> If we consider it too early to get rid of the Crosstool-NG backend
> entirely, then it can of course be converted to the package
> infrastructure, with quite a bit of effort (which we wanted to avoid
> for now).

I don't care we remove it.

One of the blocking points that users were concerned about was to be
able to generate glibc/eglibc-based toolchains directly from within
Buildroot, hence some chimed in to keep the crosstool-NG backend.

Now that Buildroot can buid glibc/eglibc-based toolchain with its
internal backend, I see no reason to keep the crosstool-Ng backend at
all. So:

Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>

As I said in a recently-posted patch (changes the manual to state the
crosstool-NG backend was deprecated), people that really want to use
crosstool-Ng can still do so outside of Buildroot, and use that
toolchain as an external toolchain.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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