Hi Michael, On Mon, 02 May 2016 16:38:16 Michael Habibi wrote: > I have been a few months out of researching Yocto, so I'm having trouble > caching it all back in (a lot to absorb!). Excuse me if this is answered > clearly in the documentation (I glanced around and I know you can build > relocatable toolchains, etc, but I suppose I'm asking more of a > philosophical question). > > I have long-term plans to change our distribution at work over from a > custom distribution to one built by Yocto - but this is a few months to a > year out. > > In the mean time, we need a new toolchain simply to update our glibc and > gcc packages. I understand that yocto 2.1 can build gcc 5.3 w/ glibc 2.23 > support. I was wondering if this would be considered an appropriate > exercise to use the yocto framework to build solely a toolchain to be used > with a custom distribution (understanding that the custom distribution > would have to be modified to source and use the new toolchain). > > We typically use crosstools to generate the toolchain, but it is a bit > outdated and only builds gcc 5.2 (which has some bugs that were fixed in > 5.3). Essentially I want to use Yocto recipes as a substitute for > crosstools-ng.
If you build (or download) our SDK that should give you what you need: http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.1/sdk-manual/sdk-manual.html#sdk-building-an-sdk-installer If it's just the toolchain you need you can ignore the bits about the extensible SDK - the standard SDK is what you want. There's some more explanatory stuff towards the top of that manual as well. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto