[Buildroot] Announcement: availability of autobuilder toolchains

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Sun Aug 26 11:26:23 UTC 2012


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 Thomas> Thanks, added to
 Thomas> http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/configs/gcc10/toolchain.config.

Great.

 Thomas> However note that I haven't see build results coming from gcc10 since
 Thomas> about two days.

Thanks. It was stuck in midori configuration (python waf?). Perhaps
because gcc10 uses python 2.5.


 >> gcc14 toolchain config is:
 >> BR2_powerpc=y
 >> BR2_powerpc_603e=y
 >> BR2_HOST_DIR="/home/peko/br/ppc603e-wl6"
 >> BR2_JLEVEL=8
 >> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_LARGEFILE=y
 >> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_INET_IPV6=y
 >> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_WCHAR=y

 Thomas> Is this running on a x86/x86-64 machine? If so, then what we
 Thomas> need to do is generate a tarball from the toolchain you have in
 Thomas> /home/peko/br/ppc603e-wl6/, and then use this tarball as the
 Thomas> external toolchain instead of making a reference to this local
 Thomas> directory. This will allow everyone to reproduce the build.

 Thomas> Would you agree to do this?

Yes, x86-64. I'll take a look at your instructions and set it up.


 >> gcc110 toolchain config is:
 >> BR2_x86_i686=y
 >> BR2_HOST_DIR="/home/peko/br/i686-wchar"
 >> BR2_JLEVEL=8
 >> BR2_PTHREAD_DEBUG=y
 >> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_WCHAR=y
 >> 
 >> But notice that this is a power7 machine, so an x86 toolchain won't work.

 Thomas> Argh. Then what can we do to allow other people to reproduce
 Thomas> the build?  I agree that doing a build targeting x86 on a !x86
 Thomas> machine is really an interesting test, so I'd like to keep
 Thomas> it. Or maybe we just say that the build results from this
 Thomas> machine cannot easily be reproduced by others and we live with
 Thomas> it?

I think we can just document the toolchain config for this one and not
archive the toolchain.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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