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Some CPU variants require that a recent-enough gcc be selected. For example, ARM's cortex-a35 requires gcc-5, while cortex-a73 requires gcc-7. Same goes for other architectures, of course. Currently, we hard-code every such conditions in the gcc version choice, as well as in the individual external toolchains. However, as we add even more CPU variants, the conditions are getting more and more complex to write and maintain. Introduce new symbols, that architectures can select if they have a specific requirement on the gcc version. gcc and external toolchains can then properly depend on those symbols. The burden of maintaining the requirements on the gcc version now falls down to the architeture, instead of being split up in gcc and all the external toolchains. As the oldest gcc version to handle, we can either choose gcc-4.9, as the oldest version we support in our internal toolchain, or choose gcc-4.8, as the oldest external toolchain we support (except for the custom ones, but they'll be handled specifically in upcoming changes). We choose to go back up to gcc-4.8. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation. The documentation can be found in docs/manual. You can generate a text document with 'make manual-text' and read output/docs/manual/manual.text. Online documentation can be found at http://buildroot.org/docs.html To build and use the buildroot stuff, do the following: 1) run 'make menuconfig' 2) select the target architecture and the packages you wish to compile 3) run 'make' 4) wait while it compiles 5) find the kernel, bootloader, root filesystem, etc. in output/images You do not need to be root to build or run buildroot. Have fun! Buildroot comes with a basic configuration for a number of boards. Run 'make list-defconfigs' to view the list of provided configurations. Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to the buildroot mailing list: buildroot@buildroot.org You can also find us on #buildroot on Freenode IRC. If you would like to contribute patches, please read https://buildroot.org/manual.html#submitting-patches