Previously, it was possible to select an external toolchain that did not
support the GCC arch tuning the user had selected. This is problematic
because it can lead to confusing error messages during builds [0].
Now, external toolchain selections will be filtered to only those that
support the required GCC version specified by the target arch tuning.
Note: this patch does not touch the Bootlin toolchain config file as it
is generated by a script.
Additional note: there is "soft" support for toolchains prior to GCC 4.8
but there are no accompanying BR2_ARCH_NEEDS_GCC_AT_LEAST_X symbols.
Instead of adding those, just use BR2_ARCH_NEEDS_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 which
is the minimum GCC version with claimed support [1].
[0]: https://lists.buildroot.org/pipermail/buildroot/2023-August/671877.html
[1]: https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#requirement-mandatory
Signed-off-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
This patch allows to use an external toolchain based on gcc 13.
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
"Toolchain prefix" option apparently doesn't have any help describing
it, which causes confusion when using external toolchain. Leaving this
option at default prefix name ("$(ARCH)-linux") when external toolchain
components are called with different prefix (e.g.
"$(ARCH)-unknown-linux-gnu") may cause build failure unless the prefix
symlink is already in place (e.g. when using Buildroot-generated
toolchain as external toolchain).
Describe the option to clarify.
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Currently, glibc depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS in all the toolchain
variants.
However, for some architectures, glibc is the only supported libc. In
commit 3b3105328e ("Config.in: only
allow BR2_STATIC_LIBS on supported libc/arch"), we implemented a fix
to avoid configurations were BR2_STATIC_LIBS=y with an architecture
already supported by glibc, because these configurations are
impossible. This commit 3b3105328e
prevents from selecting BR2_STATIC_LIBS=y when the C library used for
the internal toolchain backend is glibc.
However, it introduces a discrepency between how this topic is handled
for internal and external toolchains:
- For internal toolchains, we prevent BR2_STATIC_LIBS=y if glibc is
chosen.
- For external toolchains, we allow BR2_STATIC_LIBS=y in all cases,
and it's each glibc toolchain that has !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
This commit addresses this discrepency by preventing BR2_STATIC_LIBS=y
if glibc is chosen in all cases.
Thanks to this, we can remove the !BR2_STATIC_LIBS dependency on both
the glibc package, and all glibc external toolchains.
Fixes: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=14256
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
[Thomas: update to master, fix the gen-bootlin-toolchains script, add
a comment in the static/shared choice to indicate that static is
supported only with uclibc or musl]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
This patch allows to use an external toolchain based on gcc 12.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
This patch allows to use an external toolchain based on gcc 11.
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
This patch allows to use custom external toolchains based on gcc 10.
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- bump to 5.5.13
- rebase on top of master
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
This commit adds a user-visible option
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_HAS_SSP_STRONG, which will allow the user to
indicate if the custom external toolchain does or does not have
SSP_STRONG support. Depending on this, the user will be able to use
(or not) the BR2_SSP_STRONG option.
Checking if what the user said is true or not about this is already
done in toolchain/toolchain-external/pkg-toolchain-external.mk:
$$(Q)$$(call check_toolchain_ssp,$$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CC),$(BR2_SSP_OPTION))
If the user selects BR2_SSP_STRONG, this will check if
-fstack-protector-strong is really supported.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
When Buildroot is released, it knows up to a certain kernel header
version, and no later. However, it is possible that an external
toolchain will be used, that uses headers newer than the latest version
Buildroot knows about.
This may also happen when testing a development, an rc-class, or a newly
released kernel, either in an external toolchain, or with an internal
toolchain with custom headers (same-as-kernel, custom version, custom
git, custom tarball).
In the current state, Buildroot would refuse to use such toolchains,
because the test is for strict equality.
We'd like to make that situation possible, but we also want the user not
to be lenient at the same time, and select the right headers version
when it is known.
So, we add a new Kconfig blind option that the latest kernel headers
version selects. This options is then used to decide whether we do a
strict or loose check of the kernel headers.
Suggested-by: Aaron Sierra <asierra@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@xes-inc.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- only do a loose check for the latest version
- expand commit log
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Tested-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The oldest toolchain we test in the autobuilders is the Sourcery ARM
toolchain which is GCC 4.8 and kernel headers 3.13. Therefore, it is
likely that we're missing the required _AT_LEAST dependencies to exclude
packages that don't build with older GCC/headers.
Add a comment to the custom external toolchain that warns when an
untested GCC or kernel headers version is selected.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
This patch extends the "copy extra GCC libraries to target" feature to
also work for internal toolchains. The variable has been renamed to be
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTRA_LIBS and the configuration option moved under the
generic toolchain package. For external toolchains, the step that does
the copy is still in the copy_toolchain_lib_root() helper which copies
from the sysroot to the target. For the internal toolchain, the host
gcc-final package does a post install hook to copy the libraries from
the toolchain build folders to both the sysroot and target(!static).
Examples where this can be useful is for adding debug libraries to the
target like the GCC libsanitizer (libasan/liblsan/...).
Cc: Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
The custom external toolchain logic asks the user to specify which gcc
version is provided by the toolchain. The list of gcc versions given
by Buildroot is restricted depending on the selected CPU architecture
using the BR2_ARCH_NEEDS_GCC_AT_LEAST_xyz config options.
However, these config options generally indicate in which upstream gcc
version the support for the selected architecture was introduced. But
in practice, it is possible that an external toolchain uses some
non-upstream gcc code, providing support for a CPU architecture before
it was merged in upstream gcc.
A specific example is that there are pre-built external toolchains for
the C-SKY CPU architecture that are based on gcc 6.x, even if the
support for it was only added in upstream gcc 9.x.
Due to the BR2_ARCH_NEEDS_GCC_AT_LEAST_xyz options, only gcc >= 9.x
can be selected for C-SKY, preventing the use of such a custom
toolchain.
In addition, those dependencies are in fact not really needed:
Buildroot will check that the gcc version provided matches what the
user declared in the configuration. And if the gcc provided by the
toolchain does support that CPU architecture, then well, so be it,
there's no need to restrict the gcc version selected.
So we simply get rid of these dependencies on
BR2_ARCH_NEEDS_GCC_AT_LEAST_xyz, and also don't use them anymore to
chose a default value for the gcc version.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch allows to use an external toolchain based on gcc 9.
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@micronovasrl.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Add a new option for custom external toolchains to enable OpenMP
support.
Signed-off-by: Ed Blake <ed.blake@sondrel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
If a custom external toolchain is used, we can't enable the fortran
support. Add a new option for that.
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
