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On 10/14/2011 05:15 PM, czernitko wrote: |
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> AFAIK the biggest disadvantage of crossdev-created toolchain, compared |
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> to other cross compilation tools, is that without usage of emulator |
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> (like qemu-user) it is not possible to compile things that use in their |
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> configure scipts checks that need to be run on the target architecture |
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> (like Perl). |
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I don't know how the CodeSourcery toolchain was generated so I'm |
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probably missing your point, but with buildroot I easily build the |
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whole rootfs on Gentoo x86 PC. No target emulation at all. |
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buildroot takes off of you the burden of patching the configure scripts |
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to properly cross-compile. But, the version of buildroot I used does not |
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include Perl, only 'microperl' (which I did not need so I never compiled). |
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