From patchwork Thu Sep 27 19:27:42 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [v4] external-toolchain: BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC includes eglibc From: Baruch Siach X-Patchwork-Id: 187453 Message-Id: <1348774062-23946-1-git-send-email-baruch@tkos.co.il> To: buildroot@busybox.net Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:27:42 +0200 Yann E. MORIN says: "Although eglibc can be configured to include/exclude parts of the features, it seems to not be in wide use, if at all." Acked-by: Yann E. MORIN Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli --- v4: now actually commit the rephrased text. v3: rephrase the help text to make it clear that the eglibc build is given, address the comment of Thomas Petazzoni. v2: mention in the help text that eglibc may lack some features as suggested by Yann E. MORIN. toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in b/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in index f86ed74..cd56443 100644 --- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in +++ b/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in @@ -664,8 +664,13 @@ config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CUSTOM_UCLIBC select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SHADOW_PASSWORDS config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CUSTOM_GLIBC - bool "glibc" + bool "glibc/eglibc" select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC + help + Note: eglibc is a variant of glibc that (among other things) can be + configured to exclude some of its features. Using a toolchain with + eglibc configured to exclude key features may cause build failures to + some packages. endchoice