From patchwork Thu Sep 27 19:10:14 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Baruch Siach X-Patchwork-Id: 187450 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from fraxinus.osuosl.org (fraxinus.osuosl.org [140.211.166.137]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68972C00B6 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 05:11:03 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fraxinus.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A46710B98B; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:10:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at osuosl.org Received: from fraxinus.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pgRI+GTIpbuE; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:10:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ash.osuosl.org (ash.osuosl.org [140.211.166.34]) by fraxinus.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1291E10B8F4; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:10:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: buildroot@lists.busybox.net Delivered-To: buildroot@osuosl.org Received: from whitealder.osuosl.org (whitealder.osuosl.org [140.211.166.138]) by ash.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD14B8F74A for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whitealder.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C512F8065D for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:10:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at osuosl.org Received: from whitealder.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6-g6kDtjrzUw for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:10:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from tango.tkos.co.il (tango.tkos.co.il [62.219.50.35]) by whitealder.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 283CE89918 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:10:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tarshish.tkos.co.il (80.179.12.157.static.012.net.il [80.179.12.157]) (authenticated bits=0) by tango.tkos.co.il (8.14.4/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q8RJAVgj013979; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:10:34 +0300 From: Baruch Siach To: buildroot@busybox.net Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:10:14 +0200 Message-Id: <1348773014-19000-1-git-send-email-baruch@tkos.co.il> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.4 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.62 on 62.219.50.35 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] external-toolchain: BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC includes eglibc X-BeenThere: buildroot@busybox.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion and development of buildroot List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: buildroot-bounces@busybox.net Sender: buildroot-bounces@busybox.net 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 --- 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 | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in b/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in index f86ed74..f7a84b2 100644 --- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in +++ b/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in @@ -664,8 +664,12 @@ 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 parts of its features. This capability is + currently not supported. endchoice