[Buildroot] [git commit] toolchain-external: update Linaro ARM toolchain

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Oct 11 12:22:35 UTC 2013


Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:15:57 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

> It wouldn't solve that case, but maybe it doesn't matter to us. If the
> Linaro project co-names their toolchains based on date + gcc, then we
> can limit us to that. We then accept whatever eglibc version they
> select for that release.
> 
> If a user wants to stick to a given eglibc and gcc version, and Linaro
> updates eglibc without updating gcc, then that user will have to do
> something special. I think it's not realistic for us to handle this in
> a clearer way than Linaro does, except by providing a 'custom version'
> option.

Ok. From an user perspective, I'm not quite convinced that it makes more
sense to index according to the gcc release than the binutils, gdb, or
eglibc version, or the EABI, or something else, but ok, fair enough.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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