[ANNOUNCE] uClibc-0.9.30-rc2 released

Vladimir Dronnikov dronnikov at gmail.com
Sun Oct 19 09:48:21 UTC 2008


>>> > supply a cross compiler for the host system?
>> It's pretty trivial...

Pity that noone ships a tarball of x86 toolchain which could be just
untarred to the rootfs and has out-of-box means to build, say,
buildroot for x86. Cross compiling is indeed very important task but
native tools are of not less importance, imo.

Still AFAICS buildroot doesn't accept external toolchains cleanly: it
is supposed that one should build uClibc/gcc/binutils from scratch,
but I want to use, say, precompiled Rob's tool and libes. Still
uclibc/busybox based tools do not fit buildroot (which is claimed to
support them, right?). Still bison and flex (and evil gettext)
binaries are must-pre-have on the host system. Still an unavoidable
assumption of host system has the support for shared libes sustains.
My, I don't know whether to spend man-hours to patch buildroot for my
needs or get back to my old building system. I'd strongly prefer the
former but am not so fluent in the guts of buildroot... :(

--
Vladimir



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