[Buildroot] Using a bootlin toolchain with buildroot

Patrick Doyle wpdster at gmail.com
Sat Apr 7 00:50:30 UTC 2018


Hi Thomas
On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
> In general, for any toolchain, you can go to:
>
> https://toolchains.bootlin.com/downloads/releases/toolchains/<ARCH-TUPLE>/fragments/
>
> and find defconfig files for Buildroot.
I didn't know it was possible to use defconfig fragments with
buildroot.  Cool.   I'll go to go figure out how to use those.

> The second thing that should help is that I'm working on adding the
> Bootlin toolchains as "pre-defined" external toolchains in Buildroot,
> very much like the Linaro/Sourcery toolchains we already have. I've
> started a patch doing that, but it needs more work, especially because
> we have so many Bootlin toolchains for various architectures/C
> libraries.
Can I do anything to help with that?  It would be most useful to me
(and my team) if it were possible to use an external pre-defined
toolchain pre-installed in the file system.  That way I could tell
them "go download this toolchain from bootlin to build applications
you want on this board".  (Or, possibly, I could maintain a .deb file
of that same toolchain for them.)

>
> Hope this helps,
It does.  Thank you very much.

--wpd


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