[uClibc] Buildroot issues

[Manuel Novoa III]

Rob,

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:48:14PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Saturday 01 November 2003 11:17, tom at ceisystems.com wrote:
> > Hello again,
> > 	Ok, so, problem #1 solved.  You must build the toolchain moving
> > forward.  Lets remove the "UCLIBC_TOOLCHAIN" option, and change the 2.9x
> > option to something like "USE_295_INSTEAD"?  Does that make more sense?
> > I think it obfuscates things a bit less at least.
> 
> Actually, if you're making an embedded system to fit in 4 megs of flash, you 
> probably don't want gcc in it.  What you do in that case is use one buildroot 
> system to bootstrap another.  Build a buildroot with the toolchain, and then 
> use that to build a buildroot with just the packages you need (using the 
> first buildroot's toolchain, so no chroot during the build the second time).

buildroot builds a uClibc-based cross toolchain, which is installed in
the staging dir.  Iff requested, it will also build a toolchain for the
rootfs as well.  There is no need to 'bootstrap' one buildroot from
another.

Manuel