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authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2012-11-10 12:36:02 +0000
committerPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>2012-11-17 09:21:30 +0100
commit8fe6efa874c535d5e8cfa05f5837bff2018b07fc (patch)
tree5b45994f08dee6ba3c8f5f64fdef25a88eaa42ed
parentcdbb04096b99eb317eabd2b55610cf4056928ee6 (diff)
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Deprecate the support for the toolchain on target
As discussed during the ELCE 2012 Buildroot Developers Meeting, we no longer want to support the possibility of building a toolchain for the target. None of the core developers have any use for this, it has been known to be broken or cause problems for a long time without anyone providing fixes for it. In addition to this, Buildroot is inherently a cross-compilation tool, so the usage of a native toolchain on the target is not really useful. Many newcomers are tempted to use this possibility even though it is clearly not the intended usage of Buildroot. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
-rw-r--r--Config.in4
-rw-r--r--toolchain/gcc/Config.in.25
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 68190a530..eaafece61 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -393,6 +393,8 @@ config BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB
config BR2_HAVE_DOCUMENTATION
bool "documentation on the target"
+ # We no longer want to support a toolchain on the target
+ depends on BR2_DEPRECATED
help
Install the documentation, including manual pages and info
pages, on the target.
@@ -401,6 +403,8 @@ config BR2_HAVE_DOCUMENTATION
config BR2_HAVE_DEVFILES
bool "development files in target filesystem"
+ # We no longer want to support a toolchain on the target
+ depends on BR2_DEPRECATED
help
Install headers and static libraries in the
target filesystem
diff --git a/toolchain/gcc/Config.in.2 b/toolchain/gcc/Config.in.2
index d060a80e0..c8a8cf63a 100644
--- a/toolchain/gcc/Config.in.2
+++ b/toolchain/gcc/Config.in.2
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
config BR2_PACKAGE_GCC_TARGET
bool "gcc"
+ # We no longer want to support a toolchain on the target
+ depends on BR2_DEPRECATED
depends on BR2_HAVE_DEVFILES && BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT
select BR2_PACKAGE_BINUTILS
select BR2_PACKAGE_BINUTILS_TARGET
@@ -30,6 +32,3 @@ config BR2_EXTRA_TARGET_GCC_CONFIG_OPTIONS
Any additional target gcc options you may want to include....
Including, but not limited to --disable-checking etc.
Refer to */configure in your gcc sources.
-
-comment "gcc needs development files in target filesystem"
- depends on !BR2_HAVE_DEVFILES && BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT