[Buildroot] Package selection question

[Tom]

Thanks.

I am working to isolate and find a workaround to my mpfr problem on 
cygwin. Once I do, I will post the results of all workarounds I had to 
do (or the error log should I not get it done). In a separate thread as 
requested.

Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 12:23:37PM -0700, Tom wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just want to build the toolchain and the debugger on host: cygwin, 
>> target: arm.
>>
>> So, even after I unchecked busybox and all packages, it still builds gmp 
>> (and, unsuccessfully, mpfr). Why does it need it please and why is this 
>> an option then? Or am I doing something wrong here?
> 
> gcc uses gmp/mpfr, you're doing nothing wrong. Please report build
> failures of gmp/mpfr to the respective lists.
> 
> Before you report it to the mpfr folks, please paste the error here,
> since i suspect that it could have to do something with the
> binary/library name extensions, which (IIRC) we currently do not handle
> at all (there's a bug somewhere about this, if memory serves me right).
>