[Buildroot] [PATCH 5 of 5] toolchain-external: use host-tar instead of tar to unpack toolchains

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Thu Sep 22 20:02:36 UTC 2011


On Wednesday 21 September 2011 12:54:55, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> That should help keep the build environment sane, with a message
> to the user if something is too old;
> And should relieve the maintainers of the task of remembering to
> "re-correct" the build system someday in the future.

 How does that help the users who are stuck on RH5?  Buildroot would still not 
work for them (although with a clearer explanation why not), so they'd have to 
implement Thomas's patches after all.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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