[Buildroot] Using external toolchain / disabling Buildroottoolchain

[Ulf Samuelsson]

MikeW wrote:
> MikeW <mw_phil at ...> writes:
>
>>
>> Buildroot cannot build a required toolchain, but I would still like
>> to use it to build everything else.
>>
>> Is there a preferred way to disable building the toolchain, and to
>> set Buildroot to use an external toolchain instead ?

It would be good to specify a toolchain once, and be done with
it, so you don't have to rebuild the toolchain
every time you start on a new version of buildroot.

>> (This is 'inside-out' from the BR docs which say how to use the BR
>> toolchain from outside.)
>>
>> Looking at the top-level Makefile, this looks as if it would involve
>> edits to the file(s).
>>
>> Regards,
>> MikeW
>>
>
> Looks like there's a possible patch here
> http://bugs.uclibc.org/view.php?id=237
>
> Don't you wish there was a 'patch gallery' ?!
>
> MikeW
>
>
>
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