How to build a toolchain into the target

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Marc W. Abel <me at marcabel.com> wrote:

> Question:  Can I build my toolchain to run on the target? 
> I'm laboring with the notion that all I had to do was check
> the right box in buildroot's menuconfig, but I never found
> that box.  The root filesystem I produced doesn't have a
> compiler, and the toolchain I seem to have built is for the
> host architecture.  (Host is x86-64, and target is i486.)

You'd have to build the toolchain packages through the
crosscompiler. I didn't try it yet, but it should work.


BTW: if you're looking for flexible cross-capable distro build
system, you might like to have a look at Briegel:

https://sourceforge.net/p/briegel/home/

As it by default fetches it's source trees from the OSS-QM
project, you might also like to read:

http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm/normalized_repository.pdf


cu
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