[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] Deprecate the support for the toolchain on target

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Sat Nov 17 08:22:02 UTC 2012


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

 Thomas> As discussed during the ELCE 2012 Buildroot Developers Meeting, we no
 Thomas> longer want to support the possibility of building a toolchain for the
 Thomas> target. None of the core developers have any use for this, it has been
 Thomas> known to be broken or cause problems for a long time without anyone
 Thomas> providing fixes for it.

 Thomas> In addition to this, Buildroot is inherently a cross-compilation tool,
 Thomas> so the usage of a native toolchain on the target is not really
 Thomas> useful. Many newcomers are tempted to use this possibility even though
 Thomas> it is clearly not the intended usage of Buildroot.

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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