[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] toolchain: kill ADI Blackfin toolchain

Waldemar Brodkorb wbx at openadk.org
Thu Nov 24 15:21:53 UTC 2016


Hi Arnout,
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) wrote,

> This toolchain has many problems which are fixed in contemporary gcc
> and uClibc-ng. In addition, several hacks are needed to be able to
> work with this toolchain. All these hacks are removed as well.  Also
> the package exceptions for this toolchain are removed.
> 
> The BR2_BFIN_INSTALL_FDPIC_SHARED and BR2_BFIN_INSTALL_FLAT_SHARED
> options don't get a legacy entry. For the ADI toolchain, there already
> is a legacy entry, so it doesn't make sense to add it twice. For other
> external toolchains, these options didn't actually work, because they
> rely on the specific layout of the ADI toolchain.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>

ACK from me. May be we convince ADI people to get more stuff fixed
upstream, when this toolchain is removed. 

best regards
 Waldemar



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