[Buildroot] Analysis of build failures

[Peter Korsgaard]

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

Hi,

 >> But orc is a JIT code generator, and from the source code it seems it
 >> only handles ARM/PowerPC/x86.

 > True. Odd that their configure script doesn't bail out after checking
 > the target architecture.

 > Things worth mentioning:

 >  * They have a newer 0.4.17 version that has MIPS support, as well as
 >    PowerPC64 support.

Ehh, we currently use 0.4.18 (which doesn't seem to match their git tree
and doesn't have a RELEASE file)?


 >  * Their README suggest a way of reducing the size of the library that
 >    we are not using:

 > """
 >    A: For embedded users, the --enable-backend configure option can
 >    be used to disable irrelvant targets.  Compiled with only one target
 >    (SSE), the library size is about 150 kB uncompressed, or 48 kB
 >    compressed.  The goal was to keep the uncompressed size under
 >    about 100 kB (but that failed!).  A typical build with all targets
 >    and the full ABI is around 350 kB.
 > """

Ahh yes, that could be good to use.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard