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docs/manual: rephrase paragraph about unsupported external toolchains

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The ELDK now relies on Yocto, so it no longer has the funky
non-standard way of doing multilib. Also, we didn't mention that Yocto
toolchains/SDK are not suitable for usage with Buildroot. Therefore,
this commit rewords this part of the documentation to explain that
Yocto/OpenEmbedded SDKs cannot be used as external toolchains in
Buildroot, and why.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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Thomas Petazzoni 2014-02-23 16:04:36 +01:00 committed by Peter Korsgaard
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@ -179,23 +179,13 @@ Buildroot itself. In general, all toolchains that support the
'sysroot' feature should work. If not, do not hesitate to contact the
developers.
We do not support toolchains from the
http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK[ELDK] of Denx, for two reasons:
* The ELDK does not contain a pure toolchain (i.e just the compiler,
binutils, the C and C++ libraries), but a toolchain that comes with
a very large set of pre-compiled libraries and programs. Therefore,
Buildroot cannot import the 'sysroot' of the toolchain, as it would
contain hundreds of megabytes of pre-compiled libraries that are
normally built by Buildroot.
* The ELDK toolchains have a completely non-standard custom mechanism
to handle multiple library variants. Instead of using the standard
GCC 'multilib' mechanism, the ARM ELDK uses different symbolic links
to the compiler to differentiate between library variants (for ARM
soft-float and ARM VFP), and the PowerPC ELDK compiler uses a
+CROSS_COMPILE+ environment variable. This non-standard behaviour
makes it difficult to support ELDK in Buildroot.
We do not support toolchains or SDK generated by OpenEmbedded or
Yocto, because these toolchains are not pure toolchains (i.e just the
compiler, binutils, the C and C++ libraries). Instead these toolchains
come with a very large set of pre-compiled libraries and
programs. Therefore, Buildroot cannot import the 'sysroot' of the
toolchain, as it would contain hundreds of megabytes of pre-compiled
libraries that are normally built by Buildroot.
We also do not support using the distribution toolchain (i.e the
gcc/binutils/C library installed by your distribution) as the