Buildroot and bitbake

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 21:32:44 UTC 2011


On 06/11/2011 01:30 PM, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>  wrote:
>> Rob Landley<rob at landley.net>  a écrit :
>>> I dunno about "recommended".  By who?  There are people using
>>> buildroot (which is a repository accumulating build descriptions for
>>> the "bitbake" build tool)
>>
>> Sorry to contradict, Buildroot is not related to bitbake in anyway.
>> Buildroot is completely written in make and does not use any other
>> external tool to process the package recipes.
>
> BitBake is the tool around which the OpenEmbedded project was built.
>
> I don't know which libc OE is using by default,

there is no default it supports uclibc,eglibc,glibc, klibc
and distro's decide which one to chose OE just knows virtual/libc

but buildroot itself
> only knows how to build uClibc based toolchains.  (Although it can
> optionally use a prebuilt external toolchain or invoke crosstool-ng,
> so you can still use it with glibc/eglibc.)
>
> I suspect that buildroot is uClibc's biggest "customer."
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