[Buildroot] BuildRoot cannot build powerpc64

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Aug 18 21:18:50 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:02:31 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > The only C library that supports PowerPC64 today is glibc.
> > 
> > But glibc does not support static linking.
> > 
> > Hence there is no solution to do a statically linked rootfs on
> > PowerPC64 today.  
> 
>  Perhaps we should remove the static/shared libs options to the toolchain menu,
> and make them depend on the libc choice rather than the other way round. That
> way, we're sure that we never run into such impossible situations.
> 
>  Actually also some other options are more fitting in the toolchain menu IMHO,
> like debug/optimization options and SSP.

I personally don't like this, and instead would like to keep separated
the options that affect the build of all components (SSP or not,
debug/optimization, shared/static) from the options that configure the
toolchain itself.

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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