Commit 8fe6efa8 authored by Thomas Petazzoni's avatar Thomas Petazzoni Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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Deprecate the support for the toolchain on target 



As discussed during the ELCE 2012 Buildroot Developers Meeting, we no
longer want to support the possibility of building a toolchain for the
target. None of the core developers have any use for this, it has been
known to be broken or cause problems for a long time without anyone
providing fixes for it.

In addition to this, Buildroot is inherently a cross-compilation tool,
so the usage of a native toolchain on the target is not really
useful. Many newcomers are tempted to use this possibility even though
it is clearly not the intended usage of Buildroot.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
parent cdbb0409

Config.in

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@@ -393,6 +393,8 @@ config BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB 


config BR2_HAVE_DOCUMENTATION

	bool "documentation on the target"

	# We no longer want to support a toolchain on the target

	depends on BR2_DEPRECATED

	help

	  Install the documentation, including manual pages and info

	  pages, on the target.
@@ -401,6 +403,8 @@ config BR2_HAVE_DOCUMENTATION 


config BR2_HAVE_DEVFILES

	bool "development files in target filesystem"

	# We no longer want to support a toolchain on the target

	depends on BR2_DEPRECATED

	help

	  Install headers and static libraries in the

	  target filesystem

toolchain/gcc/Config.in.2

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config BR2_PACKAGE_GCC_TARGET

	bool "gcc"

	# We no longer want to support a toolchain on the target

	depends on BR2_DEPRECATED

	depends on BR2_HAVE_DEVFILES && BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT

	select BR2_PACKAGE_BINUTILS

	select BR2_PACKAGE_BINUTILS_TARGET
@@ -30,6 +32,3 @@ config BR2_EXTRA_TARGET_GCC_CONFIG_OPTIONS 
	  Any additional target gcc options you may want to include....

	  Including, but not limited to --disable-checking etc.

	  Refer to */configure in your gcc sources.
 


comment "gcc needs development files in target filesystem"

	depends on !BR2_HAVE_DEVFILES && BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT