[Buildroot] AVR32 toolchain build failure

[Simon Dawson]

Hi Gustavo,

On 8 August 2013 11:56, Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar> wrote:
> 1) Reinstate patches in the appropiate place since uclibc was packaged.
> 2) Probably add various "depends on !BR2_avr32" in packages that need
> newer syscalls (alternatively add a ton of backports for uclibc 0.9.31
> from newer releases).
> 3) Revert startfiles cleanup to the old manual way, adding new
> exceptions/modes for the noMMU crowd (it wasn't handled before) - or
> alternatively also patch the uclibc 0.9.31 makefile to make it more
> 0.9.32/33-ish like.

That doesn't sound too bad. I'm happy to do this work, if appropriate.
Perhaps your point #2 will not be necessary in the short term...?

> In my opinion, sorry if it hurts someone, we're going in circles trying
> to keep up with a dead architecture, because that's what it is, no
> matter how much support some people/companies want to give for their
> products the onus shouldn't be on us that things weren't upstreamed in a
> proper fashion which would make things far more simple.

I understand where you're coming from here. I'm not sure we're "going
in circles" just yet, but appreciate that it may come to that.

Simon.