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+################################################################################
+# External toolchain package infrastructure
+#
+# This package infrastructure implements the support for external
+# toolchains, i.e toolchains that are available pre-built, ready to
+# use. Such toolchain may either be readily available on the Web
+# (Linaro, Sourcery CodeBench, from processor vendors) or may be built
+# with tools like Crosstool-NG or Buildroot itself. So far, we have
+# tested this with:
+#
+#  * Toolchains generated by Crosstool-NG
+#  * Toolchains generated by Buildroot
+#  * Toolchains provided by Linaro for the ARM and AArch64
+#    architectures
+#  * Sourcery CodeBench toolchains (from Mentor Graphics) for the ARM,
+#    MIPS, PowerPC, x86, x86_64 and NIOS 2 architectures. For the MIPS
+#    toolchain, the -muclibc variant isn't supported yet, only the
+#    default glibc-based variant is.
+#  * Analog Devices toolchains for the Blackfin architecture
+#  * Xilinx toolchains for the Microblaze architecture
+#  * Synopsys DesignWare toolchains for ARC cores
+#
+# The basic principle is the following
+#
+#  1. If the toolchain is not pre-installed, download and extract it
+#  in $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR). Otherwise,
+#  $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR) points to were the toolchain has
+#  already been installed by the user.
+#
+#  2. For all external toolchains, perform some checks on the
+#  conformity between the toolchain configuration described in the
+#  Buildroot menuconfig system, and the real configuration of the
+#  external toolchain. This is for example important to make sure that
+#  the Buildroot configuration system knows whether the toolchain
+#  supports RPC, IPv6, locales, large files, etc. Unfortunately, these
+#  things cannot be detected automatically, since the value of these
+#  options (such as BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_NATIVE_RPC) are needed at
+#  configuration time because these options are used as dependencies
+#  for other options. And at configuration time, we are not able to
+#  retrieve the external toolchain configuration.
+#
+#  3. Copy the libraries needed at runtime to the target directory,
+#  $(TARGET_DIR). Obviously, things such as the C library, the dynamic
+#  loader and a few other utility libraries are needed if dynamic
+#  applications are to be executed on the target system.
+#
+#  4. Copy the libraries and headers to the staging directory. This
+#  will allow all further calls to gcc to be made using --sysroot
+#  $(STAGING_DIR), which greatly simplifies the compilation of the
+#  packages when using external toolchains. So in the end, only the
+#  cross-compiler binaries remains external, all libraries and headers
+#  are imported into the Buildroot tree.
+#
+#  5. Build a toolchain wrapper which executes the external toolchain
+#  with a number of arguments (sysroot/march/mtune/..) hardcoded,
+#  so we're sure the correct configuration is always used and the
+#  toolchain behaves similar to an internal toolchain.
+#  This toolchain wrapper and symlinks are installed into
+#  $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin like for the internal toolchains, and the rest
+#  of Buildroot is handled identical for the 2 toolchain types.
+################################################################################
+
+#
+# Definitions of where the toolchain can be found
+#
+
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX))
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DOWNLOAD_INSTALL_DIR = $(HOST_DIR)/opt/ext-toolchain
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DOWNLOAD),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DOWNLOAD_INSTALL_DIR)
+else
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PATH))
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR),)
+ifneq ($(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX),)
+# if no path set, figure it out from path
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN := $(shell dirname $(shell which $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX)-gcc))
+endif
+else
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BLACKFIN_UCLINUX),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN := $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR)/$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX)/bin
+else
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN := $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR)/bin
+endif
+endif
+
+# If this is a buildroot toolchain, it already has a wrapper which we want to
+# bypass. Since this is only evaluated after it has been extracted, we can use
+# $(wildcard ...) here.
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX = \
+	$(if $(wildcard $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN)/*.br_real),.br_real)
+
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN)/$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX)-
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)gcc$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CXX = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)g++$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_FC = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)gfortran$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_READELF = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)readelf$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)
+
+
+#
+# Definitions of the list of libraries that should be copied to the target.
+#
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC)$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_UCLIBC),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libatomic.so.* libc.so.* libcrypt.so.* libdl.so.* libgcc_s.so.* libm.so.* libnsl.so.* libresolv.so.* librt.so.* libutil.so.*
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC)$(BR2_ARM_EABIHF),yy)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += ld-linux-armhf.so.*
+else
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += ld*.so.*
+endif
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libpthread.so.*
+ifneq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_GDB)$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GDB_SERVER_COPY),)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libthread_db.so.*
+endif # gdbserver
+endif # ! no threads
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libnss_files.so.* libnss_dns.so.* libmvec.so.*
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_MUSL),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libc.so libgcc_s.so.*
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libstdc++.so.*
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_FORTRAN),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libgfortran.so.*
+# fortran needs quadmath on x86 and x86_64
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_LIBQUADMATH),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libquadmath.so*
+endif
+endif
+
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += $(call qstrip,$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_LIBS))
+
+
+#
+# Definition of the CFLAGS to use with the external toolchain, as well as the
+# common toolchain wrapper build arguments
+#
+ifeq ($(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU_REVISION)),)
+CC_TARGET_CPU_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU))
+else
+CC_TARGET_CPU_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU)-$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU_REVISION))
+endif
+CC_TARGET_ARCH_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH))
+CC_TARGET_ABI_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_ABI))
+CC_TARGET_FPU_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_FPU))
+CC_TARGET_FLOAT_ABI_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_FLOAT_ABI))
+CC_TARGET_MODE_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_MODE))
+
+# march/mtune/floating point mode needs to be passed to the external toolchain
+# to select the right multilib variant
+ifeq ($(BR2_x86_64),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -m64
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_64
+endif
+ifneq ($(CC_TARGET_ARCH_),)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -march=$(CC_TARGET_ARCH_)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_ARCH='"$(CC_TARGET_ARCH_)"'
+endif
+ifneq ($(CC_TARGET_CPU_),)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -mcpu=$(CC_TARGET_CPU_)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_CPU='"$(CC_TARGET_CPU_)"'
+endif
+ifneq ($(CC_TARGET_ABI_),)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -mabi=$(CC_TARGET_ABI_)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_ABI='"$(CC_TARGET_ABI_)"'
+endif
+ifneq ($(CC_TARGET_FPU_),)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -mfpu=$(CC_TARGET_FPU_)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_FPU='"$(CC_TARGET_FPU_)"'
+endif
+ifneq ($(CC_TARGET_FLOAT_ABI_),)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -mfloat-abi=$(CC_TARGET_FLOAT_ABI_)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_FLOAT_ABI='"$(CC_TARGET_FLOAT_ABI_)"'
+endif
+ifneq ($(CC_TARGET_MODE_),)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -m$(CC_TARGET_MODE_)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_MODE='"$(CC_TARGET_MODE_)"'
+endif
+ifeq ($(BR2_BINFMT_FLAT),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -Wl,-elf2flt
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_BINFMT_FLAT
+endif
+ifeq ($(BR2_mipsel)$(BR2_mips64el),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_MIPS_TARGET_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -EL
+endif
+ifeq ($(BR2_mips)$(BR2_mips64),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_MIPS_TARGET_BIG_ENDIAN
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -EB
+endif
+ifeq ($(BR2_arceb),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_ARC_TARGET_BIG_ENDIAN
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -EB
+endif
+
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += $(call qstrip,$(BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION))
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_SOFT_FLOAT),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -msoft-float
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_SOFTFLOAT=1
+endif
+
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += \
+	-DBR_CROSS_PATH_SUFFIX='"$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)"'
+
+ifeq ($(filter $(HOST_DIR)/%,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN)),)
+# TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN points outside HOST_DIR => absolute path
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += \
+	-DBR_CROSS_PATH_ABS='"$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN)"'
+else
+# TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN points inside HOST_DIR => relative path
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += \
+	-DBR_CROSS_PATH_REL='"$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN:$(HOST_DIR)/%=%)"'
+endif
+
+
+#
+# The following functions creates the symbolic links needed to get the
+# cross-compilation tools visible in $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin. Some of
+# links are done directly to the corresponding tool in the external
+# toolchain installation directory, while some other links are done to
+# the toolchain wrapper (preprocessor, C, C++ and Fortran compiler)
+#
+# We skip gdb symlink when we are building our own gdb to prevent two
+# gdb's in $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin.
+#
+# The LTO support in gcc creates wrappers for ar, ranlib and nm which load
+# the lto plugin. These wrappers are called *-gcc-ar, *-gcc-ranlib, and
+# *-gcc-nm and should be used instead of the real programs when -flto is
+# used. However, we should not add the toolchain wrapper for them, and they
+# match the *cc-* pattern. Therefore, an additional case is added for *-ar,
+# *-ranlib and *-nm.
+define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_WRAPPER
+	$(Q)cd $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin; \
+	for i in $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)*; do \
+		base=$${i##*/}; \
+		case "$$base" in \
+		*-ar|*-ranlib|*-nm) \
+			ln -sf $$(echo $$i | sed 's%^$(HOST_DIR)%../..%') .; \
+			;; \
+		*cc|*cc-*|*++|*++-*|*cpp|*-gfortran) \
+			ln -sf toolchain-wrapper $$base; \
+			;; \
+		*gdb|*gdbtui) \
+			if test "$(BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_GDB)" != "y"; then \
+				ln -sf $$(echo $$i | sed 's%^$(HOST_DIR)%../..%') .; \
+			fi \
+			;; \
+		*) \
+			ln -sf $$(echo $$i | sed 's%^$(HOST_DIR)%../..%') .; \
+			;; \
+		esac; \
+	done
+endef
+
+
+# Various utility functions used by the external toolchain package
+# infrastructure. Those functions are mainly responsible for:
+#
+#   - installation the toolchain libraries to $(TARGET_DIR)
+#   - copying the toolchain sysroot to $(STAGING_DIR)
+#   - installing a gdbinit file
+#
+# Details about sysroot directory selection.
+#
+# To find the sysroot directory, we use the trick of looking for the
+# 'libc.a' file with the -print-file-name gcc option, and then
+# mangling the path to find the base directory of the sysroot.
+#
+# Note that we do not use the -print-sysroot option, because it is
+# only available since gcc 4.4.x, and we only recently dropped support
+# for 4.2.x and 4.3.x.
+#
+# When doing this, we don't pass any option to gcc that could select a
+# multilib variant (such as -march) as we want the "main" sysroot,
+# which contains all variants of the C library in the case of multilib
+# toolchains. We use the TARGET_CC_NO_SYSROOT variable, which is the
+# path of the cross-compiler, without the --sysroot=$(STAGING_DIR),
+# since what we want to find is the location of the original toolchain
+# sysroot. This "main" sysroot directory is stored in SYSROOT_DIR.
+#
+# Then, multilib toolchains are a little bit more complicated, since
+# they in fact have multiple sysroots, one for each variant supported
+# by the toolchain. So we need to find the particular sysroot we're
+# interested in.
+#
+# To do so, we ask the compiler where its sysroot is by passing all
+# flags (including -march and al.), except the --sysroot flag since we
+# want to the compiler to tell us where its original sysroot
+# is. ARCH_SUBDIR will contain the subdirectory, in the main
+# SYSROOT_DIR, that corresponds to the selected architecture
+# variant. ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR will contain the full path to this
+# location.
+#
+# One might wonder why we don't just bother with ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR. The
+# fact is that in multilib toolchains, the header files are often only
+# present in the main sysroot, and only the libraries are available in
+# each variant-specific sysroot directory.
+
+
+# toolchain_find_sysroot returns the sysroot location for the given
+# compiler + flags. We need to handle cases where libc.a is in:
+#
+#  - lib/
+#  - usr/lib/
+#  - lib32/
+#  - lib64/
+#  - lib32-fp/ (Cavium toolchain)
+#  - lib64-fp/ (Cavium toolchain)
+#  - usr/lib/<tuple>/ (Linaro toolchain)
+#
+# And variations on these.
+define toolchain_find_sysroot
+$$(printf $(call toolchain_find_libc_a,$(1)) | sed -r -e 's:(usr/)?lib(32|64)?([^/]*)?/([^/]*/)?libc\.a::')
+endef
+
+# Returns the lib subdirectory for the given compiler + flags (i.e
+# typically lib32 or lib64 for some toolchains)
+define toolchain_find_libdir
+$$(printf $(call toolchain_find_libc_a,$(1)) | sed -r -e 's:.*/(usr/)?(lib(32|64)?([^/]*)?)/([^/]*/)?libc.a:\2:')
+endef
+
+# Returns the location of the libc.a file for the given compiler + flags
+define toolchain_find_libc_a
+$$(readlink -f $$(LANG=C $(1) -print-file-name=libc.a))
+endef
+
+# Integration of the toolchain into Buildroot: find the main sysroot
+# and the variant-specific sysroot, then copy the needed libraries to
+# the $(TARGET_DIR) and copy the whole sysroot (libraries and headers)
+# to $(STAGING_DIR).
+#
+# Variables are defined as follows:
+#
+#  LIBC_A_LOCATION:     location of the libc.a file in the default
+#                       multilib variant (allows to find the main
+#                       sysroot directory)
+#                       Ex: /x-tools/mips-2011.03/mips-linux-gnu/libc/usr/lib/libc.a
+#
+#  SYSROOT_DIR:         the main sysroot directory, deduced from
+#                       LIBC_A_LOCATION by removing the
+#                       usr/lib[32|64]/libc.a part of the path.
+#                       Ex: /x-tools/mips-2011.03/mips-linux-gnu/libc/
+#
+# ARCH_LIBC_A_LOCATION: location of the libc.a file in the selected
+#                       multilib variant (taking into account the
+#                       CFLAGS). Allows to find the sysroot of the
+#                       selected multilib variant.
+#                       Ex: /x-tools/mips-2011.03/mips-linux-gnu/libc/mips16/soft-float/el/usr/lib/libc.a
+#
+# ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR:     the sysroot of the selected multilib variant,
+#                       deduced from ARCH_LIBC_A_LOCATION by removing
+#                       usr/lib[32|64]/libc.a at the end of the path.
+#                       Ex: /x-tools/mips-2011.03/mips-linux-gnu/libc/mips16/soft-float/el/
+#
+# ARCH_LIB_DIR:         'lib', 'lib32' or 'lib64' depending on where libraries
+#                       are stored. Deduced from ARCH_LIBC_A_LOCATION by
+#                       looking at usr/lib??/libc.a.
+#                       Ex: lib
+#
+# ARCH_SUBDIR:          the relative location of the sysroot of the selected
+#                       multilib variant compared to the main sysroot.
+#			Ex: mips16/soft-float/el
+#
+# SUPPORT_LIB_DIR:      some toolchains, such as recent Linaro toolchains,
+#                       store GCC support libraries (libstdc++,
+#                       libgcc_s, etc.) outside of the sysroot. In
+#                       this case, SUPPORT_LIB_DIR is set to a
+#                       non-empty value, and points to the directory
+#                       where these support libraries are
+#                       available. Those libraries will be copied to
+#                       our sysroot, and the directory will also be
+#                       considered when searching libraries for copy
+#                       to the target filesystem.
+#
+# Please be very careful to check the major toolchain sources:
+# Buildroot, Crosstool-NG, CodeSourcery and Linaro
+# before doing any modification on the below logic.
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),)
+define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_TARGET_LIBS
+	$(Q)$(call MESSAGE,"Copying external toolchain libraries to target...")
+	$(Q)for libs in $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS); do \
+		$(call copy_toolchain_lib_root,$$libs); \
+	done
+endef
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GDB_SERVER_COPY),y)
+define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_TARGET_GDBSERVER
+	$(Q)$(call MESSAGE,"Copying gdbserver")
+	$(Q)ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_sysroot,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC) $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
+	ARCH_LIB_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_libdir,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC) $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
+	gdbserver_found=0 ; \
+	for d in $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR}/usr \
+		 $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR}/../debug-root/usr \
+		 $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR}/usr/$${ARCH_LIB_DIR} \
+		 $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR); do \
+		if test -f $${d}/bin/gdbserver ; then \
+			install -m 0755 -D $${d}/bin/gdbserver $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/gdbserver ; \
+			gdbserver_found=1 ; \
+			break ; \
+		fi ; \
+	done ; \
+	if [ $${gdbserver_found} -eq 0 ] ; then \
+		echo "Could not find gdbserver in external toolchain" ; \
+		exit 1 ; \
+	fi
+endef
+endif
+
+define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_SYSROOT_LIBS
+	$(Q)SYSROOT_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_sysroot,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC))" ; \
+	ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_sysroot,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC) $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
+	ARCH_LIB_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_libdir,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC) $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
+	SUPPORT_LIB_DIR="" ; \
+	if test `find $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR} -name 'libstdc++.a' | wc -l` -eq 0 ; then \
+		LIBSTDCPP_A_LOCATION=$$(LANG=C $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC) $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS) -print-file-name=libstdc++.a) ; \
+		if [ -e "$${LIBSTDCPP_A_LOCATION}" ]; then \
+			SUPPORT_LIB_DIR=`readlink -f $${LIBSTDCPP_A_LOCATION} | sed -r -e 's:libstdc\+\+\.a::'` ; \
+		fi ; \
+	fi ; \
+	if [ "$${SYSROOT_DIR}" == "$${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR}" ] ; then \
+		ARCH_SUBDIR="" ; \
+	elif [ "`dirname $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR}`" = "`dirname $${SYSROOT_DIR}`" ] ; then \
+		SYSROOT_DIR_DIRNAME=`dirname $${SYSROOT_DIR}`/ ; \
+		ARCH_SUBDIR=`echo $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR} | sed -r -e "s:^$${SYSROOT_DIR_DIRNAME}(.*)/$$:\1:"` ; \
+	else \
+		ARCH_SUBDIR=`echo $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR} | sed -r -e "s:^$${SYSROOT_DIR}(.*)/$$:\1:"` ; \
+	fi ; \
+	$(call MESSAGE,"Copying external toolchain sysroot to staging...") ; \
+	$(call copy_toolchain_sysroot,$${SYSROOT_DIR},$${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR},$${ARCH_SUBDIR},$${ARCH_LIB_DIR},$${SUPPORT_LIB_DIR})
+endef
+
+# Create a symlink from (usr/)$(ARCH_LIB_DIR) to lib.
+# Note: the skeleton package additionally creates lib32->lib or lib64->lib
+# (as appropriate)
+#
+# $1: destination directory (TARGET_DIR / STAGING_DIR)
+create_lib_symlinks = \
+       $(Q)DESTDIR="$(strip $1)" ; \
+       ARCH_LIB_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_libdir,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC) $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
+       if [ ! -e "$${DESTDIR}/$${ARCH_LIB_DIR}" -a ! -e "$${DESTDIR}/usr/$${ARCH_LIB_DIR}" ]; then \
+               ln -snf lib "$${DESTDIR}/$${ARCH_LIB_DIR}" ; \
+               ln -snf lib "$${DESTDIR}/usr/$${ARCH_LIB_DIR}" ; \
+       fi
+
+define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CREATE_STAGING_LIB_SYMLINK
+       $(call create_lib_symlinks,$(STAGING_DIR))
+endef
+
+define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CREATE_TARGET_LIB_SYMLINK
+       $(call create_lib_symlinks,$(TARGET_DIR))
+endef
+
+#
+# Generate gdbinit file for use with Buildroot
+#
+define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_GDBINIT
+	$(Q)if test -f $(TARGET_CROSS)gdb ; then \
+		$(call MESSAGE,"Installing gdbinit"); \
+		$(gen_gdbinit_file); \
+	fi
+endef
+
+# Various utility functions used by the external toolchain based on musl.
+
+# musl does not provide an implementation for sys/queue.h or sys/cdefs.h.
+# So, add the musl-compat-headers package that will install those files,
+# into the staging directory:
+#   sys/queue.h:  header from NetBSD
+#   sys/cdefs.h:  minimalist header bundled in Buildroot
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_MUSL),y)
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DEPENDENCIES += musl-compat-headers
+endif
+
+# With the musl C library, the libc.so library directly plays the role
+# of the dynamic library loader. We just need to create a symbolic
+# link to libc.so with the appropriate name.
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_MUSL),y)
+ifeq ($(BR2_i386),y)
+MUSL_ARCH = i386
+else ifeq ($(BR2_ARM_EABIHF),y)
+MUSL_ARCH = armhf
+else ifeq ($(BR2_mipsel):$(BR2_SOFT_FLOAT),y:y)
+MUSL_ARCH = mipsel-sf
+else ifeq ($(BR2_sh),y)
+MUSL_ARCH = sh
+else
+MUSL_ARCH = $(ARCH)
+endif
+define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_MUSL_LD_LINK
+	ln -sf libc.so $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/ld-musl-$(MUSL_ARCH).so.1
+endef
+TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_POST_INSTALL_STAGING_HOOKS += TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_MUSL_LD_LINK
+endif
+
+#
+# Various functions used by the external toolchain package
+# infrastructure to handle the Blackfin specific
+# BR2_BFIN_INSTALL_FDPIC_SHARED and BR2_BFIN_INSTALL_FLAT_SHARED
+# options.
+#
+
+# Special installation target used on the Blackfin architecture when
+# FDPIC is not the primary binary format being used, but the user has
+# nonetheless requested the installation of the FDPIC libraries to the
+# target filesystem.
+ifeq ($(BR2_BFIN_INSTALL_FDPIC_SHARED),y)
+define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_SYSROOT_LIBS_BFIN_FDPIC
+	$(Q)$(call MESSAGE,"Install external toolchain FDPIC libraries to staging...")
+	$(Q)FDPIC_EXTERNAL_CC=$(dir $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC))/../../bfin-linux-uclibc/bin/bfin-linux-uclibc-gcc ; \
+	FDPIC_SYSROOT_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_sysroot,$${FDPIC_EXTERNAL_CC} $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
+	FDPIC_LIB_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_libdir,$${FDPIC_EXTERNAL_CC} $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
+	FDPIC_SUPPORT_LIB_DIR="" ; \
+	if test `find $${FDPIC_SYSROOT_DIR} -name 'libstdc++.a' | wc -l` -eq 0 ; then \
+	        FDPIC_LIBSTDCPP_A_LOCATION=$$(LANG=C $${FDPIC_EXTERNAL_CC} $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS) -print-file-name=libstdc++.a) ; \
+	        if [ -e "$${FDPIC_LIBSTDCPP_A_LOCATION}" ]; then \
+	                FDPIC_SUPPORT_LIB_DIR=`readlink -f $${FDPIC_LIBSTDCPP_A_LOCATION} | sed -r -e 's:libstdc\+\+\.a::'` ; \
+	        fi ; \
+	fi ; \
+	$(call copy_toolchain_sysroot,$${FDPIC_SYSROOT_DIR},$${FDPIC_SYSROOT_DIR},,$${FDPIC_LIB_DIR},$${FDPIC_SUPPORT_LIB_DIR})
+endef
+define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_TARGET_BFIN_FDPIC
+	$(Q)$(call MESSAGE,"Install external toolchain FDPIC libraries to target...")
+	$(Q)for libs in $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS); do \
+		$(call copy_toolchain_lib_root,$$libs); \
+	done
+endef
+endif
+
+# Special installation target used on the Blackfin architecture when
+# shared FLAT is not the primary format being used, but the user has
+# nonetheless requested the installation of the shared FLAT libraries
+# to the target filesystem. The flat libraries are found and linked
+# according to the index in name "libN.so". Index 1 is reserved for
+# the standard C library. Customer libraries can use 4 and above.
+ifeq ($(BR2_BFIN_INSTALL_FLAT_SHARED),y)
+define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_TARGET_BFIN_FLAT
+	$(Q)$(call MESSAGE,"Install external toolchain FLAT libraries to target...")
+	$(Q)FLAT_EXTERNAL_CC=$(dir $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC))../../bfin-uclinux/bin/bfin-uclinux-gcc ; \
+	FLAT_LIBC_A_LOCATION=`$${FLAT_EXTERNAL_CC} $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS) -mid-shared-library -print-file-name=libc`; \
+	if [ -f $${FLAT_LIBC_A_LOCATION} -a ! -h $${FLAT_LIBC_A_LOCATION} ] ; then \
+	        $(INSTALL) -D $${FLAT_LIBC_A_LOCATION} $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/lib1.so; \
+	fi
+endef
+endif
+
+# uClibc-ng dynamic loader is called ld-uClibc.so.1, but gcc is not
+# patched specifically for uClibc-ng, so it continues to generate
+# binaries that expect the dynamic loader to be named ld-uClibc.so.0,
+# like with the original uClibc. Therefore, we create an additional
+# symbolic link to make uClibc-ng systems work properly.
+define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_FIXUP_UCLIBCNG_LDSO
+	$(Q)if test -e $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/ld-uClibc.so.1; then \
+		ln -sf ld-uClibc.so.1 $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 ; \
+	fi
+	$(Q)if test -e $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/ld64-uClibc.so.1; then \
+		ln -sf ld64-uClibc.so.1 $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/ld64-uClibc.so.0 ; \
+	fi
+endef
diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.mk b/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.mk
index 180a63da58..be1b5e4bee 100644
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.mk
+++ b/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.mk
@@ -4,573 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-#
-# This package implements the support for external toolchains, i.e
-# toolchains that are available pre-built, ready to use. Such toolchain
-# may either be readily available on the Web (Linaro, Sourcery
-# CodeBench, from processor vendors) or may be built with tools like
-# Crosstool-NG or Buildroot itself. So far, we have tested this
-# with:
-#
-#  * Toolchains generated by Crosstool-NG
-#  * Toolchains generated by Buildroot
-#  * Toolchains provided by Linaro for the ARM and AArch64
-#    architectures
-#  * Sourcery CodeBench toolchains (from Mentor Graphics) for the ARM,
-#    MIPS, PowerPC, x86, x86_64 and NIOS 2 architectures. For the MIPS
-#    toolchain, the -muclibc variant isn't supported yet, only the
-#    default glibc-based variant is.
-#  * Analog Devices toolchains for the Blackfin architecture
-#  * Xilinx toolchains for the Microblaze architecture
-#  * Synopsys DesignWare toolchains for ARC cores
-#
-# The basic principle is the following
-#
-#  1. If the toolchain is not pre-installed, download and extract it
-#  in $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR). Otherwise,
-#  $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR) points to were the toolchain has
-#  already been installed by the user.
-#
-#  2. For all external toolchains, perform some checks on the
-#  conformity between the toolchain configuration described in the
-#  Buildroot menuconfig system, and the real configuration of the
-#  external toolchain. This is for example important to make sure that
-#  the Buildroot configuration system knows whether the toolchain
-#  supports RPC, IPv6, locales, large files, etc. Unfortunately, these
-#  things cannot be detected automatically, since the value of these
-#  options (such as BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_NATIVE_RPC) are needed at
-#  configuration time because these options are used as dependencies
-#  for other options. And at configuration time, we are not able to
-#  retrieve the external toolchain configuration.
-#
-#  3. Copy the libraries needed at runtime to the target directory,
-#  $(TARGET_DIR). Obviously, things such as the C library, the dynamic
-#  loader and a few other utility libraries are needed if dynamic
-#  applications are to be executed on the target system.
-#
-#  4. Copy the libraries and headers to the staging directory. This
-#  will allow all further calls to gcc to be made using --sysroot
-#  $(STAGING_DIR), which greatly simplifies the compilation of the
-#  packages when using external toolchains. So in the end, only the
-#  cross-compiler binaries remains external, all libraries and headers
-#  are imported into the Buildroot tree.
-#
-#  5. Build a toolchain wrapper which executes the external toolchain
-#  with a number of arguments (sysroot/march/mtune/..) hardcoded,
-#  so we're sure the correct configuration is always used and the
-#  toolchain behaves similar to an internal toolchain.
-#  This toolchain wrapper and symlinks are installed into
-#  $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin like for the internal toolchains, and the rest
-#  of Buildroot is handled identical for the 2 toolchain types.
-
-#
-# Definitions of where the toolchain can be found
-#
-
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX))
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DOWNLOAD_INSTALL_DIR = $(HOST_DIR)/opt/ext-toolchain
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DOWNLOAD),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DOWNLOAD_INSTALL_DIR)
-else
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PATH))
-endif
-
-ifeq ($(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR),)
-ifneq ($(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX),)
-# if no path set, figure it out from path
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN := $(shell dirname $(shell which $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX)-gcc))
-endif
-else
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BLACKFIN_UCLINUX),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN := $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR)/$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX)/bin
-else
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN := $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR)/bin
-endif
-endif
-
-# If this is a buildroot toolchain, it already has a wrapper which we want to
-# bypass. Since this is only evaluated after it has been extracted, we can use
-# $(wildcard ...) here.
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX = \
-	$(if $(wildcard $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN)/*.br_real),.br_real)
-
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN)/$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX)-
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)gcc$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CXX = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)g++$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_FC = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)gfortran$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_READELF = $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)readelf$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)
-
-
-#
-# Definitions of the list of libraries that should be copied to the target.
-#
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC)$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_UCLIBC),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libatomic.so.* libc.so.* libcrypt.so.* libdl.so.* libgcc_s.so.* libm.so.* libnsl.so.* libresolv.so.* librt.so.* libutil.so.*
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC)$(BR2_ARM_EABIHF),yy)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += ld-linux-armhf.so.*
-else
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += ld*.so.*
-endif
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libpthread.so.*
-ifneq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_GDB)$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GDB_SERVER_COPY),)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libthread_db.so.*
-endif # gdbserver
-endif # ! no threads
-endif
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libnss_files.so.* libnss_dns.so.* libmvec.so.*
-endif
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_MUSL),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libc.so libgcc_s.so.*
-endif
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libstdc++.so.*
-endif
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_FORTRAN),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libgfortran.so.*
-# fortran needs quadmath on x86 and x86_64
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_LIBQUADMATH),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libquadmath.so*
-endif
-endif
-
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += $(call qstrip,$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_LIBS))
-
-
-#
-# Definition of the CFLAGS to use with the external toolchain, as well as the
-# common toolchain wrapper build arguments
-#
-ifeq ($(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU_REVISION)),)
-CC_TARGET_CPU_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU))
-else
-CC_TARGET_CPU_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU)-$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU_REVISION))
-endif
-CC_TARGET_ARCH_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH))
-CC_TARGET_ABI_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_ABI))
-CC_TARGET_FPU_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_FPU))
-CC_TARGET_FLOAT_ABI_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_FLOAT_ABI))
-CC_TARGET_MODE_ := $(call qstrip,$(BR2_GCC_TARGET_MODE))
-
-# march/mtune/floating point mode needs to be passed to the external toolchain
-# to select the right multilib variant
-ifeq ($(BR2_x86_64),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -m64
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_64
-endif
-ifneq ($(CC_TARGET_ARCH_),)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -march=$(CC_TARGET_ARCH_)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_ARCH='"$(CC_TARGET_ARCH_)"'
-endif
-ifneq ($(CC_TARGET_CPU_),)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -mcpu=$(CC_TARGET_CPU_)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_CPU='"$(CC_TARGET_CPU_)"'
-endif
-ifneq ($(CC_TARGET_ABI_),)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -mabi=$(CC_TARGET_ABI_)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_ABI='"$(CC_TARGET_ABI_)"'
-endif
-ifneq ($(CC_TARGET_FPU_),)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -mfpu=$(CC_TARGET_FPU_)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_FPU='"$(CC_TARGET_FPU_)"'
-endif
-ifneq ($(CC_TARGET_FLOAT_ABI_),)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -mfloat-abi=$(CC_TARGET_FLOAT_ABI_)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_FLOAT_ABI='"$(CC_TARGET_FLOAT_ABI_)"'
-endif
-ifneq ($(CC_TARGET_MODE_),)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -m$(CC_TARGET_MODE_)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_MODE='"$(CC_TARGET_MODE_)"'
-endif
-ifeq ($(BR2_BINFMT_FLAT),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -Wl,-elf2flt
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_BINFMT_FLAT
-endif
-ifeq ($(BR2_mipsel)$(BR2_mips64el),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_MIPS_TARGET_LITTLE_ENDIAN
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -EL
-endif
-ifeq ($(BR2_mips)$(BR2_mips64),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_MIPS_TARGET_BIG_ENDIAN
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -EB
-endif
-ifeq ($(BR2_arceb),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_ARC_TARGET_BIG_ENDIAN
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -EB
-endif
-
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += $(call qstrip,$(BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION))
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_SOFT_FLOAT),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -msoft-float
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_SOFTFLOAT=1
-endif
-
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += \
-	-DBR_CROSS_PATH_SUFFIX='"$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SUFFIX)"'
-
-ifeq ($(filter $(HOST_DIR)/%,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN)),)
-# TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN points outside HOST_DIR => absolute path
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += \
-	-DBR_CROSS_PATH_ABS='"$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN)"'
-else
-# TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN points inside HOST_DIR => relative path
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_WRAPPER_ARGS += \
-	-DBR_CROSS_PATH_REL='"$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN:$(HOST_DIR)/%=%)"'
-endif
-
-
-#
-# The following functions creates the symbolic links needed to get the
-# cross-compilation tools visible in $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin. Some of
-# links are done directly to the corresponding tool in the external
-# toolchain installation directory, while some other links are done to
-# the toolchain wrapper (preprocessor, C, C++ and Fortran compiler)
-#
-# We skip gdb symlink when we are building our own gdb to prevent two
-# gdb's in $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin.
-#
-# The LTO support in gcc creates wrappers for ar, ranlib and nm which load
-# the lto plugin. These wrappers are called *-gcc-ar, *-gcc-ranlib, and
-# *-gcc-nm and should be used instead of the real programs when -flto is
-# used. However, we should not add the toolchain wrapper for them, and they
-# match the *cc-* pattern. Therefore, an additional case is added for *-ar,
-# *-ranlib and *-nm.
-define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_WRAPPER
-	$(Q)cd $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin; \
-	for i in $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CROSS)*; do \
-		base=$${i##*/}; \
-		case "$$base" in \
-		*-ar|*-ranlib|*-nm) \
-			ln -sf $$(echo $$i | sed 's%^$(HOST_DIR)%../..%') .; \
-			;; \
-		*cc|*cc-*|*++|*++-*|*cpp|*-gfortran) \
-			ln -sf toolchain-wrapper $$base; \
-			;; \
-		*gdb|*gdbtui) \
-			if test "$(BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_GDB)" != "y"; then \
-				ln -sf $$(echo $$i | sed 's%^$(HOST_DIR)%../..%') .; \
-			fi \
-			;; \
-		*) \
-			ln -sf $$(echo $$i | sed 's%^$(HOST_DIR)%../..%') .; \
-			;; \
-		esac; \
-	done
-endef
-
-
-# Various utility functions used by the external toolchain package
-# infrastructure. Those functions are mainly responsible for:
-#
-#   - installation the toolchain libraries to $(TARGET_DIR)
-#   - copying the toolchain sysroot to $(STAGING_DIR)
-#   - installing a gdbinit file
-#
-# Details about sysroot directory selection.
-#
-# To find the sysroot directory, we use the trick of looking for the
-# 'libc.a' file with the -print-file-name gcc option, and then
-# mangling the path to find the base directory of the sysroot.
-#
-# Note that we do not use the -print-sysroot option, because it is
-# only available since gcc 4.4.x, and we only recently dropped support
-# for 4.2.x and 4.3.x.
-#
-# When doing this, we don't pass any option to gcc that could select a
-# multilib variant (such as -march) as we want the "main" sysroot,
-# which contains all variants of the C library in the case of multilib
-# toolchains. We use the TARGET_CC_NO_SYSROOT variable, which is the
-# path of the cross-compiler, without the --sysroot=$(STAGING_DIR),
-# since what we want to find is the location of the original toolchain
-# sysroot. This "main" sysroot directory is stored in SYSROOT_DIR.
-#
-# Then, multilib toolchains are a little bit more complicated, since
-# they in fact have multiple sysroots, one for each variant supported
-# by the toolchain. So we need to find the particular sysroot we're
-# interested in.
-#
-# To do so, we ask the compiler where its sysroot is by passing all
-# flags (including -march and al.), except the --sysroot flag since we
-# want to the compiler to tell us where its original sysroot
-# is. ARCH_SUBDIR will contain the subdirectory, in the main
-# SYSROOT_DIR, that corresponds to the selected architecture
-# variant. ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR will contain the full path to this
-# location.
-#
-# One might wonder why we don't just bother with ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR. The
-# fact is that in multilib toolchains, the header files are often only
-# present in the main sysroot, and only the libraries are available in
-# each variant-specific sysroot directory.
-
-
-# toolchain_find_sysroot returns the sysroot location for the given
-# compiler + flags. We need to handle cases where libc.a is in:
-#
-#  - lib/
-#  - usr/lib/
-#  - lib32/
-#  - lib64/
-#  - lib32-fp/ (Cavium toolchain)
-#  - lib64-fp/ (Cavium toolchain)
-#  - usr/lib/<tuple>/ (Linaro toolchain)
-#
-# And variations on these.
-define toolchain_find_sysroot
-$$(printf $(call toolchain_find_libc_a,$(1)) | sed -r -e 's:(usr/)?lib(32|64)?([^/]*)?/([^/]*/)?libc\.a::')
-endef
-
-# Returns the lib subdirectory for the given compiler + flags (i.e
-# typically lib32 or lib64 for some toolchains)
-define toolchain_find_libdir
-$$(printf $(call toolchain_find_libc_a,$(1)) | sed -r -e 's:.*/(usr/)?(lib(32|64)?([^/]*)?)/([^/]*/)?libc.a:\2:')
-endef
-
-# Returns the location of the libc.a file for the given compiler + flags
-define toolchain_find_libc_a
-$$(readlink -f $$(LANG=C $(1) -print-file-name=libc.a))
-endef
-
-# Integration of the toolchain into Buildroot: find the main sysroot
-# and the variant-specific sysroot, then copy the needed libraries to
-# the $(TARGET_DIR) and copy the whole sysroot (libraries and headers)
-# to $(STAGING_DIR).
-#
-# Variables are defined as follows:
-#
-#  LIBC_A_LOCATION:     location of the libc.a file in the default
-#                       multilib variant (allows to find the main
-#                       sysroot directory)
-#                       Ex: /x-tools/mips-2011.03/mips-linux-gnu/libc/usr/lib/libc.a
-#
-#  SYSROOT_DIR:         the main sysroot directory, deduced from
-#                       LIBC_A_LOCATION by removing the
-#                       usr/lib[32|64]/libc.a part of the path.
-#                       Ex: /x-tools/mips-2011.03/mips-linux-gnu/libc/
-#
-# ARCH_LIBC_A_LOCATION: location of the libc.a file in the selected
-#                       multilib variant (taking into account the
-#                       CFLAGS). Allows to find the sysroot of the
-#                       selected multilib variant.
-#                       Ex: /x-tools/mips-2011.03/mips-linux-gnu/libc/mips16/soft-float/el/usr/lib/libc.a
-#
-# ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR:     the sysroot of the selected multilib variant,
-#                       deduced from ARCH_LIBC_A_LOCATION by removing
-#                       usr/lib[32|64]/libc.a at the end of the path.
-#                       Ex: /x-tools/mips-2011.03/mips-linux-gnu/libc/mips16/soft-float/el/
-#
-# ARCH_LIB_DIR:         'lib', 'lib32' or 'lib64' depending on where libraries
-#                       are stored. Deduced from ARCH_LIBC_A_LOCATION by
-#                       looking at usr/lib??/libc.a.
-#                       Ex: lib
-#
-# ARCH_SUBDIR:          the relative location of the sysroot of the selected
-#                       multilib variant compared to the main sysroot.
-#			Ex: mips16/soft-float/el
-#
-# SUPPORT_LIB_DIR:      some toolchains, such as recent Linaro toolchains,
-#                       store GCC support libraries (libstdc++,
-#                       libgcc_s, etc.) outside of the sysroot. In
-#                       this case, SUPPORT_LIB_DIR is set to a
-#                       non-empty value, and points to the directory
-#                       where these support libraries are
-#                       available. Those libraries will be copied to
-#                       our sysroot, and the directory will also be
-#                       considered when searching libraries for copy
-#                       to the target filesystem.
-#
-# Please be very careful to check the major toolchain sources:
-# Buildroot, Crosstool-NG, CodeSourcery and Linaro
-# before doing any modification on the below logic.
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),)
-define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_TARGET_LIBS
-	$(Q)$(call MESSAGE,"Copying external toolchain libraries to target...")
-	$(Q)for libs in $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS); do \
-		$(call copy_toolchain_lib_root,$$libs); \
-	done
-endef
-endif
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GDB_SERVER_COPY),y)
-define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_TARGET_GDBSERVER
-	$(Q)$(call MESSAGE,"Copying gdbserver")
-	$(Q)ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_sysroot,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC) $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
-	ARCH_LIB_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_libdir,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC) $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
-	gdbserver_found=0 ; \
-	for d in $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR}/usr \
-		 $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR}/../debug-root/usr \
-		 $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR}/usr/$${ARCH_LIB_DIR} \
-		 $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR); do \
-		if test -f $${d}/bin/gdbserver ; then \
-			install -m 0755 -D $${d}/bin/gdbserver $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/gdbserver ; \
-			gdbserver_found=1 ; \
-			break ; \
-		fi ; \
-	done ; \
-	if [ $${gdbserver_found} -eq 0 ] ; then \
-		echo "Could not find gdbserver in external toolchain" ; \
-		exit 1 ; \
-	fi
-endef
-endif
-
-define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_SYSROOT_LIBS
-	$(Q)SYSROOT_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_sysroot,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC))" ; \
-	ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_sysroot,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC) $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
-	ARCH_LIB_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_libdir,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC) $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
-	SUPPORT_LIB_DIR="" ; \
-	if test `find $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR} -name 'libstdc++.a' | wc -l` -eq 0 ; then \
-		LIBSTDCPP_A_LOCATION=$$(LANG=C $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC) $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS) -print-file-name=libstdc++.a) ; \
-		if [ -e "$${LIBSTDCPP_A_LOCATION}" ]; then \
-			SUPPORT_LIB_DIR=`readlink -f $${LIBSTDCPP_A_LOCATION} | sed -r -e 's:libstdc\+\+\.a::'` ; \
-		fi ; \
-	fi ; \
-	if [ "$${SYSROOT_DIR}" == "$${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR}" ] ; then \
-		ARCH_SUBDIR="" ; \
-	elif [ "`dirname $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR}`" = "`dirname $${SYSROOT_DIR}`" ] ; then \
-		SYSROOT_DIR_DIRNAME=`dirname $${SYSROOT_DIR}`/ ; \
-		ARCH_SUBDIR=`echo $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR} | sed -r -e "s:^$${SYSROOT_DIR_DIRNAME}(.*)/$$:\1:"` ; \
-	else \
-		ARCH_SUBDIR=`echo $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR} | sed -r -e "s:^$${SYSROOT_DIR}(.*)/$$:\1:"` ; \
-	fi ; \
-	$(call MESSAGE,"Copying external toolchain sysroot to staging...") ; \
-	$(call copy_toolchain_sysroot,$${SYSROOT_DIR},$${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR},$${ARCH_SUBDIR},$${ARCH_LIB_DIR},$${SUPPORT_LIB_DIR})
-endef
-
-# Create a symlink from (usr/)$(ARCH_LIB_DIR) to lib.
-# Note: the skeleton package additionally creates lib32->lib or lib64->lib
-# (as appropriate)
-#
-# $1: destination directory (TARGET_DIR / STAGING_DIR)
-create_lib_symlinks = \
-       $(Q)DESTDIR="$(strip $1)" ; \
-       ARCH_LIB_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_libdir,$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC) $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
-       if [ ! -e "$${DESTDIR}/$${ARCH_LIB_DIR}" -a ! -e "$${DESTDIR}/usr/$${ARCH_LIB_DIR}" ]; then \
-               ln -snf lib "$${DESTDIR}/$${ARCH_LIB_DIR}" ; \
-               ln -snf lib "$${DESTDIR}/usr/$${ARCH_LIB_DIR}" ; \
-       fi
-
-define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CREATE_STAGING_LIB_SYMLINK
-       $(call create_lib_symlinks,$(STAGING_DIR))
-endef
-
-define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CREATE_TARGET_LIB_SYMLINK
-       $(call create_lib_symlinks,$(TARGET_DIR))
-endef
-
-#
-# Generate gdbinit file for use with Buildroot
-#
-define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_GDBINIT
-	$(Q)if test -f $(TARGET_CROSS)gdb ; then \
-		$(call MESSAGE,"Installing gdbinit"); \
-		$(gen_gdbinit_file); \
-	fi
-endef
-
-# Various utility functions used by the external toolchain based on musl.
-
-# musl does not provide an implementation for sys/queue.h or sys/cdefs.h.
-# So, add the musl-compat-headers package that will install those files,
-# into the staging directory:
-#   sys/queue.h:  header from NetBSD
-#   sys/cdefs.h:  minimalist header bundled in Buildroot
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_MUSL),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DEPENDENCIES += musl-compat-headers
-endif
-
-# With the musl C library, the libc.so library directly plays the role
-# of the dynamic library loader. We just need to create a symbolic
-# link to libc.so with the appropriate name.
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_MUSL),y)
-ifeq ($(BR2_i386),y)
-MUSL_ARCH = i386
-else ifeq ($(BR2_ARM_EABIHF),y)
-MUSL_ARCH = armhf
-else ifeq ($(BR2_mipsel):$(BR2_SOFT_FLOAT),y:y)
-MUSL_ARCH = mipsel-sf
-else ifeq ($(BR2_sh),y)
-MUSL_ARCH = sh
-else
-MUSL_ARCH = $(ARCH)
-endif
-define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_MUSL_LD_LINK
-	ln -sf libc.so $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/ld-musl-$(MUSL_ARCH).so.1
-endef
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_POST_INSTALL_STAGING_HOOKS += TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_MUSL_LD_LINK
-endif
-
-#
-# Various functions used by the external toolchain package
-# infrastructure to handle the Blackfin specific
-# BR2_BFIN_INSTALL_FDPIC_SHARED and BR2_BFIN_INSTALL_FLAT_SHARED
-# options.
-#
-
-# Special installation target used on the Blackfin architecture when
-# FDPIC is not the primary binary format being used, but the user has
-# nonetheless requested the installation of the FDPIC libraries to the
-# target filesystem.
-ifeq ($(BR2_BFIN_INSTALL_FDPIC_SHARED),y)
-define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_SYSROOT_LIBS_BFIN_FDPIC
-	$(Q)$(call MESSAGE,"Install external toolchain FDPIC libraries to staging...")
-	$(Q)FDPIC_EXTERNAL_CC=$(dir $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC))/../../bfin-linux-uclibc/bin/bfin-linux-uclibc-gcc ; \
-	FDPIC_SYSROOT_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_sysroot,$${FDPIC_EXTERNAL_CC} $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
-	FDPIC_LIB_DIR="$(call toolchain_find_libdir,$${FDPIC_EXTERNAL_CC} $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS))" ; \
-	FDPIC_SUPPORT_LIB_DIR="" ; \
-	if test `find $${FDPIC_SYSROOT_DIR} -name 'libstdc++.a' | wc -l` -eq 0 ; then \
-	        FDPIC_LIBSTDCPP_A_LOCATION=$$(LANG=C $${FDPIC_EXTERNAL_CC} $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS) -print-file-name=libstdc++.a) ; \
-	        if [ -e "$${FDPIC_LIBSTDCPP_A_LOCATION}" ]; then \
-	                FDPIC_SUPPORT_LIB_DIR=`readlink -f $${FDPIC_LIBSTDCPP_A_LOCATION} | sed -r -e 's:libstdc\+\+\.a::'` ; \
-	        fi ; \
-	fi ; \
-	$(call copy_toolchain_sysroot,$${FDPIC_SYSROOT_DIR},$${FDPIC_SYSROOT_DIR},,$${FDPIC_LIB_DIR},$${FDPIC_SUPPORT_LIB_DIR})
-endef
-define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_TARGET_BFIN_FDPIC
-	$(Q)$(call MESSAGE,"Install external toolchain FDPIC libraries to target...")
-	$(Q)for libs in $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS); do \
-		$(call copy_toolchain_lib_root,$$libs); \
-	done
-endef
-endif
-
-# Special installation target used on the Blackfin architecture when
-# shared FLAT is not the primary format being used, but the user has
-# nonetheless requested the installation of the shared FLAT libraries
-# to the target filesystem. The flat libraries are found and linked
-# according to the index in name "libN.so". Index 1 is reserved for
-# the standard C library. Customer libraries can use 4 and above.
-ifeq ($(BR2_BFIN_INSTALL_FLAT_SHARED),y)
-define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_TARGET_BFIN_FLAT
-	$(Q)$(call MESSAGE,"Install external toolchain FLAT libraries to target...")
-	$(Q)FLAT_EXTERNAL_CC=$(dir $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC))../../bfin-uclinux/bin/bfin-uclinux-gcc ; \
-	FLAT_LIBC_A_LOCATION=`$${FLAT_EXTERNAL_CC} $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS) -mid-shared-library -print-file-name=libc`; \
-	if [ -f $${FLAT_LIBC_A_LOCATION} -a ! -h $${FLAT_LIBC_A_LOCATION} ] ; then \
-	        $(INSTALL) -D $${FLAT_LIBC_A_LOCATION} $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/lib1.so; \
-	fi
-endef
-endif
-
-# uClibc-ng dynamic loader is called ld-uClibc.so.1, but gcc is not
-# patched specifically for uClibc-ng, so it continues to generate
-# binaries that expect the dynamic loader to be named ld-uClibc.so.0,
-# like with the original uClibc. Therefore, we create an additional
-# symbolic link to make uClibc-ng systems work properly.
-define TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_FIXUP_UCLIBCNG_LDSO
-	$(Q)if test -e $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/ld-uClibc.so.1; then \
-		ln -sf ld-uClibc.so.1 $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 ; \
-	fi
-	$(Q)if test -e $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/ld64-uClibc.so.1; then \
-		ln -sf ld64-uClibc.so.1 $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/ld64-uClibc.so.0 ; \
-	fi
-endef
+# All the definition that are common between the toolchain-external
+# generic package and the toolchain-external-package infrastructure
+# can be found in pkg-toolchain-external.mk
 
 TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_ADD_TOOLCHAIN_DEPENDENCY = NO