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documentation: Reword introduction about external toolchains

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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<h2 id="external_toolchain">Using an external toolchain</h2>
<p>It might be useful not to use the toolchain generated by
Buildroot, for example if you already have a toolchain that is known
to work for your specific CPU, or if the toolchain generation feature
of Buildroot is not sufficiently flexible for you (for example if you
need to generate a system with <i>glibc</i> instead of
<i>uClibc</i>). Buildroot supports using an <i>external
toolchain</i>.</p>
<p>Using an already existing toolchain is useful for different
reasons:</p>
<ul>
<li>you already have a toolchain that is known to work for your
specific CPU</li>
<li>you want to speed up the Buildroot build process by skipping
the long toolchain build part</li>
<li>the toolchain generation feature of Buildroot is not
sufficiently flexible for you (for example if you need to
generate a system with <i>glibc</i> instead of
<i>uClibc</i>)</li>
</ul>
<p>Buildroot supports using existing toolchains through a
mechanism called <i>external toolchain</i>.</p>
<p>To enable the use of an external toolchain, go to the
<code>Toolchain</code> menu, and :</p>