R: uClibc toolchain

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:28 +0000, Ján Sáreník wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > The last package release from http://buildroot.uclib.org doesn't permit to
> > choose those 2 kernel version from make menuconfig.
> 
> There's a difference between the kernel header files used and the kernel
> itself.
> 
> Virually, you could use any kernel version which is somehow backward
> compatible with the versions of header you have used to compile the
> toolchain. So don't worry and compile the toolchain with latest stable
> Linux headers package (I believe it's version 2.6.12.0) and then compile
> the kernel you want to use independently (and realize that buildroot
> does not build a kernel for you!, it's ,,just''[1] tolchain!).

Not quite true, I use it to build the kernels as well. You can setup a
target device with its own configs and linux.configs as well. Look for
example configs by looking at the Via and Soekris directories.

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