[Buildroot] External toolchain improvements

[Lionel Landwerlin]

Le mardi 14 juillet 2009 à 16:41 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
> Hello Lionel,
> 
> Le Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:26:02 +0200,
> Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.landwerlin at openwide.fr> a écrit :
> 
> > Just a word about the choice to put the EXTERNAL_LIBS variable in
> > toolchain/external-toolchain/ext-tool.mk. I don't think it's a good
> > choice. For example, my current toolchain includes a glibc version
> > 2.6. This make the ld-linux loader name /lib/ld-linux.so.2 instead
> > of /lib/ld-linux.so.3.
> > 
> > Modifying an enormous variable inside kconfig is painful, but I think
> > it's better to let this variable configurable rather than encourage
> > the buildroot user to modify an unfriendly makefile
> > (toolchain/external-toolchain/ext-tool.mk).
> 
> This is also something I've discovered recently. I'd like to spend some
> time to see if it's still possible to auto-detect the version of the
> libraries to copy. If it doesn't work, then I fallback to the previous
> solution, which I don't find really nice.
> 
> Sincerly,

I just successed in building webkit on top of directfb with an external
toolchain. We should also think to copy the libstdc++ files when
selected from the config file.

Regards,

-- 
Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.landwerlin at openwide.fr>