[Buildroot] [PATCH] Allow Buildroot to update toolchain

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "ANDY" == ANDY KENNEDY <ANDY.KENNEDY at adtran.com> writes:

 ANDY> Sometimes it is useful to self contain a toolchain.  To do this, one
 ANDY> must somehow build in the extra libraries needed to make the toolchain
 ANDY> complete.  This patch adjusts Buildroot to, by configuration, modify the
 ANDY> external toolchain while building additional libraries.

I'm not sure I understand the use case here. How is it different that
setting BR2_HOST_DIR to something, do a build and then use the toolchain
in BR2_HOST_DIR/usr/bin outside buildroot?

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard