[Buildroot] Supporting multiple versions of toolchain components?

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Wed Feb 12 08:43:59 UTC 2014


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 >> Note that I'm not immediately advocating for removing the multiple
 >> version support where we have it already. Rather, I propose to not add
 >> more multiversion packages.

 > I certainly agree with you on this. I would propose to:

 >  1/ Remove the multiversion selection on Busybox, because I don't
 >     really see why we have this specifically for Busybox.

 >  2/ Keep a maximum number of three gcc, binutils, gdb and C library
 >     versions. Like: the latest one, the N-1 (default), and the N-2.

Sounds good to me. Let's also do the same for kernel headers. We still
need to keep the arch specific versions though.

Will you send patches or should I do it myself?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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