[uClibc] Pre-built toolchain compile problems

[Manuel Novoa III]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 01:42:25PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Manuel Novoa III wrote:
> 
> >I don't recommend trying to build perl with buildroot.  I started to
> >clean up the build some time ago, but had to put it aside for more
> >important projects.
> 
> I don't even need Perl for my final toolchain, as the packages I'm 
> building don't use it. I only ran into the problem because I was using 
> the buildroot Makefile.

perl is not added to TARGETS in the default Makefile.

> >Also, currently you will want to be using the uClibc snapshot.
> 
> Have switched to that, and have also switched to just using the 
> "toolchain" Makefile, so that I can just use the rest of the development 
> environment on my host system instead of a chroot-ed buildroot. This 
> seems to work OK, but I'm unclear on the best way to use the resulting 
> toolchain. When uClibc used to include a wrapper, I could just put that 
> in PATH ahead of my host's toolchain and everything would be happy. Does 
> that still work? (Sorry for the newbie questions, I've looked back 
> through the last 3 months of the mailing list archives since the 
> wrappers went away and didn't really see anyone ask this basic question :-)

You can add <path to buildroot>/buildroot/build_<arch>/staging_dir/bin
to your PATH and access the cross tools buildroot builds and uses
itself.

Manuel