Commit a88ba3ee authored by Thomas Petazzoni's avatar Thomas Petazzoni
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documentation: Reword introduction about external toolchains

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    <h2 id="external_toolchain">Using an external toolchain</h2>

    <p>It might be useful not to use the toolchain generated by
    Buildroot, for example if you already have a toolchain that is known
    to work for your specific CPU, or if the toolchain generation feature
    of Buildroot is not sufficiently flexible for you (for example if you
    need to generate a system with <i>glibc</i> instead of
    <i>uClibc</i>). Buildroot supports using an <i>external
    toolchain</i>.</p>
    <p>Using an already existing toolchain is useful for different
    reasons:</p>

    <ul>
      <li>you already have a toolchain that is known to work for your
	specific CPU</li>
      <li>you want to speed up the Buildroot build process by skipping
      the long toolchain build part</li>
      <li>the toolchain generation feature of Buildroot is not
	sufficiently flexible for you (for example if you need to
	generate a system with <i>glibc</i> instead of
	<i>uClibc</i>)</li>
    </ul>

    <p>Buildroot supports using existing toolchains through a
    mechanism called <i>external toolchain</i>.</p>

    <p>To enable the use of an external toolchain, go to the
    <code>Toolchain</code> menu, and :</p>