[Buildroot] Disabling Synopsys ARC pre-built toolchains in Buildroot
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Fri Apr 17 19:47:26 UTC 2015
On 17/04/15 10:49, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> [1] Buildroot defconfigs for uClibc are not generated by "make
> savedefconfig" which makes it very hard to understand which options are
> enabled and which are disabled compared to defaults.
I think the only reason why this is the case is that uClibc didn't use to
support savedefconfig. AFAICS 0.9.33.2 still doesn't.
> [2] Buildroot defconfig may contain options (disabled or enabled
> compared to defaults) that might be harmful (in run-time issues like
> performance degradation etc). Remember missing
> UCLIBC_HAS_STRING_GENERIC_OPT. This is I think a reminder of early days
> of Buildroot. And so blind use of Buildroot defconfig as defconfig for
> ARC might not work well enough.
We're certainly open to improving the BR defconfigs!
Regards,
Arnout
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