[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] toolchain-external: Improve lib subdirectory matching

[Yingjie Bai]

Hi Thomas,

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire
<patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> Dear Bai Yingjie,
>>
>> On Wed,  3 Sep 2014 21:29:14 +0800, Bai Yingjie wrote:
>>> Some external toolchain provides lib32-fp which supports FPU instructions
>>> as well as lib32 in sys-root/usr, but lib32-fp can't be matched and
>>> in consequence causes a compile error.
>>>
>>> The toolchain in this case is OCTEON mips64 toolchain, and the CFLAGS
>>> cause the issue is -march=octeon3.
>>>
>>> This patch improves the matching by accepting lib(32|64)?([^/]*)? as lib
>>> name.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bai Yingjie <byj.tea at gmail.com>
>>
>> Thanks for this contribution! Is this toolchain available publicly? The
>> problem I have is that if the toolchain is not available, then we have
>> no way to test if future changes to the external toolchain logic will
>> not break the support for this toolchain.
>
> The mentioned toolchain comes from Cavium Networks. You can find a
> public version of this toolchain here:
> http://www.cnusers.org/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=32&func=select&id=62
>
> I don't think that this public toolchain is 100% identical to the one
> given to their (paying) customers, but I assume that the lib32-fp
> issue is the same.

I am very happy to get replied, thanks for your explanation.