Commit ae3ae906 authored by Thomas Petazzoni's avatar Thomas Petazzoni Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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documentation: mention we can't use the distro toolchain as external

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    <p>We also do not support using the distribution toolchain (i.e
    the gcc/binutils/C library installed by your distribution) as the
    toolchain to build software for the target. This is because your
    distribution toolchain is not a "pure" toolchain (i.e only with
    the C/C++ library), so we cannot import it properly into the
    Buildroot build environment. So even if you are building a system
    for a x86 or x86_64 target, you have to generate a
    cross-compilation toolchain with Buildroot or Crosstool-NG.</p>

    <h2 id="add_packages">Adding new packages to Buildroot</h2>

    <p>This section covers how new packages (userspace libraries or