Richard Purdie wrote: > This is something I experimented a bit with and wondered if anyone else > was interested in it. I just added external-toolchain.bb to OE which > allows a meta-toolchain generated toolchain to be used by OE instead of > building its own.
Woot! This is very helful, thanks. > The attached patch adds the notion of different toolchains to angstrom, > by default it uses the one specified by the DISTRO_VERSION_MAJOR > variable I added but with ANGSTROM_TOOLCHAIN = "external" use a > pre-supplied toolchain. > I don't know if Angstrom want to support this or not but this should at > least show its possible and document how to do it. The patch shouldn't > be committed in its current form as it needs a 2008-1 version file > adding. Some of the PREFRERRED_VERSION statements related to the > toolchain might also move to the toolchain definition files too but I > have no strong opinions on that. > I was able to generate an external toolchain and then use that to make a > minimal-image, I haven't tested further. > It is also I admit slightly glibc specific. We have to start somewhere > though :). Absolutely. Mickey. _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-devel mailing list Angstrom-distro-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-devel
