[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] toolchain: allow for stupid toolchains

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Ezequiel Garcia,

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:33:27 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> From: Guido Martínez <guido at vanguardiasur.com.ar>
> 
> check_arm_abi builds a test C file to check that the toolchain is
> working correctly, with the output redirected to /dev/null.
> 
> However, some toolchains (OSELAS 2013.12.2, for instance) foolishly
> append ".gdb" to the output filename for an intermediate file, causing
> an attempt to write to /dev/null.gdb, which obviously fails.
> 
> Fix this by adding an option to skip this check, so it can be selected
> in the OSELAS toolchain.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guido Martínez <guido at vanguardiasur.com.ar>

Instead of skipping the check, can we fix the check instead? Like
outputting to a temporary file, and removing it afterward, or something
like that?

Thanks,

Thomas
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