On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:16:57PM -0400, Brian Hutchinson wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > TOOLCHAIN_TYPE=internal will build the toolchain from sources. >> > >> > >> >> I build everything using Yocto 1.5 last year and remember having >> >> issues building 3.12 with the toolchain built by Yocto. If I remember >> > >> > Hmm, not sure about the issues with the upstream toolchain. Another option >> > would be to use Linaro toolchain - either external or internal. The only >> > catch >> > is that Linaro is not directly targeting or supporting ARM9 platforms. So, >> > any >> > support requests would have to go to upstream GCC. >> > >> >> Ah, now I'm with you. So if I set TOOLCHAIN_TYPE=internal, is it >> building the same toolchain that would be built if I had used Yocto >> (upstream gcc I'm assuming although I admit I never dug into it) or >> something else? > > Correct, it would build the toolchain from the sources available. Default is > of course OE-Core - gcc 4.9 in master and 4.8 in daisy. > But if you have meta-linaro-toolchain layer in your stack, you can specify > to build that one instead: > > GCCVERSION ?= "linaro-4.8%" > BINUVERSION ?= "linaro-2.24%" > EGLIBCVERSION ?= "linaro-2.19%" > > That would build the Linaro toolchain from sources. > > >> Should I try again with the latest external Linaro? Just wondering >> what may be the best option since I've been out of the ARM9 scene for >> a while but now have to update a bunch of our stuff for a new release. > > If you use TOOLCHAIN_TYPE=external and TOOLCHAIN_BRAND=linaro (both are the > defaults for meta-arago), then it will use the external Linaro toolchain. We > are currently using 2013.03 that is gcc-4.7 based. We've had some issues with > 2014.03, gcc-4.8 one.
Awesome! Thanks guys. I'll give some of that a try and test some options and see if we see any weirdness. Regards, Brian _______________________________________________ meta-arago mailing list [email protected] http://arago-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meta-arago
