[Buildroot] Download external toolchain with make source

[Fache, Herve]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 23:16, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr
> wrote:

> Peter, Hervé, All,
>
> On Friday 08 July 2011 16:10:52 Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > >>>>> "Herve" == Fache, Herve <h-fache at ti.com> writes:
> >
> >  Herve> Hello list,
> >  Herve> We have a need for an external toolchain, and need to be able to
> >  Herve> download everything for off-line compilation. To reach this goal,
> we
> >  Herve> have added the option for make source to download the external
> >  Herve> toolchain together with the packages.
> >
> >  Herve> I thought you may be interested in this very simple patch to
> support
> >  Herve> this feature :-)
> >
> > Thanks. I would prefer to use (ab)use the uclibc-source target, similar
> > to how we ensure the external toolchain gets setup before building
> > packages.
> >
> > I also just noticed crosstool-ng needs it as well.
>
> For crosstool-NG, that's not that easy. There is no top-level rule to just
> do the download. crosstool-NG does its own downloading.
>
> So, we have to build crosstool-NG, which implies building host-gawk and
> host-automake, and their dependencies...
>
> I've done the necessary stuff here, and will post a patch shortly after a
> little bit more of testing...
>

I can't see this in the latest release, or am I looking in the wrong place?

Kind regards,
Hervé
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