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documentation: mention we can't use the distro toolchain as external

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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<p>We also do not support using the distribution toolchain (i.e
the gcc/binutils/C library installed by your distribution) as the
toolchain to build software for the target. This is because your
distribution toolchain is not a "pure" toolchain (i.e only with
the C/C++ library), so we cannot import it properly into the
Buildroot build environment. So even if you are building a system
for a x86 or x86_64 target, you have to generate a
cross-compilation toolchain with Buildroot or Crosstool-NG.</p>
<h2 id="add_packages">Adding new packages to Buildroot</h2>
<p>This section covers how new packages (userspace libraries or