[Buildroot] Question about native tools.

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Oct 23 18:44:53 UTC 2014


Ezequiel, Andy,

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:27:24 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:

> On 10/23/2014 02:39 PM, ANDY KENNEDY wrote:
> > I have the need to build a cross-built native toolchain (basically a
> > Canadian Cross).  I also have had various people ask me (verbally, not
> > on lists) for a way to build a toolchain (including make, etc) for a
> > target.  Used to be that I would recommend BuildRoot as, prior to
> > 2013.08 (IIRC), this was a trivial thing to do through the menuconfig.
> > 
> > Why was it decided to remove the support for the toolchain/build tools
> > on the target?
> > 
> 
> Maybe this answers your question:
> 
> http://buildroot-busybox.2317881.n4.nabble.com/Open-question-remove-quot-toolchain-on-target-quot-option-td8832.html

Or better:

  http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#faq-no-compiler-on-target

Best regards,

Thomas
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