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| author | Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot@gmail.com> | 2012-06-22 07:42:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2012-07-22 16:53:25 +0200 |
| commit | 163aeb14e23213a67d7b99a1c0cd9a5b28b75f77 (patch) | |
| tree | d5a1d66ac9a65ad5c4c7743daf24b4cc4b0ba7fb /toolchain/toolchain-external | |
| parent | df0c12599487e49a6fe390a89f2f9ee5ee93222e (diff) | |
| download | buildroot-novena-163aeb14e23213a67d7b99a1c0cd9a5b28b75f77.tar.gz buildroot-novena-163aeb14e23213a67d7b99a1c0cd9a5b28b75f77.zip | |
toolchain-external: line up comments with reality
Line-up with changes from commit 3367d5ce770ac409e7b3f5bba2c7ed1a819b3ef7
"external-toolchain: run checks even on extracted toolchains"
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'toolchain/toolchain-external')
| -rw-r--r-- | toolchain/toolchain-external/ext-tool.mk | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/ext-tool.mk b/toolchain/toolchain-external/ext-tool.mk index 49dd0e2b6..9c88776f6 100644 --- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/ext-tool.mk +++ b/toolchain/toolchain-external/ext-tool.mk @@ -14,11 +14,10 @@ # # The basic principle is the following # -# 1. a. For toolchains downloaded from the Web, Buildroot already -# knows their configuration, so it just downloads them and extract -# them in $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DIR). +# 1. If the toolchain is not pre-installed, download and extract it +# in $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DIR). # -# 1. b. For pre-installed toolchains, perform some checks on the +# 2. For all external toolchains, perform some checks on the # conformity between the toolchain configuration described in the # Buildroot menuconfig system, and the real configuration of the # external toolchain. This is for example important to make sure that @@ -30,19 +29,19 @@ # options. And at configuration time, we are not able to retrieve the # external toolchain configuration. # -# 2. Copy the libraries needed at runtime to the target directory, +# 3. Copy the libraries needed at runtime to the target directory, # $(TARGET_DIR). Obviously, things such as the C library, the dynamic # loader and a few other utility libraries are needed if dynamic # applications are to be executed on the target system. # -# 3. Copy the libraries and headers to the staging directory. This +# 4. Copy the libraries and headers to the staging directory. This # will allow all further calls to gcc to be made using --sysroot # $(STAGING_DIR), which greatly simplifies the compilation of the # packages when using external toolchains. So in the end, only the # cross-compiler binaries remains external, all libraries and headers # are imported into the Buildroot tree. # -# 4. Build a toolchain wrapper which executes the external toolchain +# 5. Build a toolchain wrapper which executes the external toolchain # with a number of arguments (sysroot/march/mtune/..) hardcoded, # so we're sure the correct configuration is always used and the # toolchain behaves similar to an internal toolchain. |