[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/9] toolchain-external: allow specifying extra external libraries

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas², All,

On Sunday 02 October 2011 21:20:10 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> From: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com>
> 
> Custom toolchains may provide extra libraries that need to be copied to the
> target. This patch adds a configuration option for this.

What kind of libraries are we talking about here? Things such as libz.so,
or like libnss_*.so ?

There are a few cases I can think of:

 - the library/ies are available as standard buildroot package/s
   (eg. libz.so)
   --> then that's a no-no, or there would be conflicts with buildroot's
       own builds

 - the library/ies is/are not part of buildroot, and but is/are used by
   a buildroot package (eg. libwhatever.so)
   --> then we should also copy the headers

 - the library/ies is/are system libs from the toolchain (eg. libnss_*.so)
   --> the library/ies should be copied by a generic toolchain hook, which
       works for all kind of toolchain backends (internal, external, or
       ct-ng)

So, I'm not really sure we should allow that without further explanations.
(and there was no more in Thomas' original post on the suject...)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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