Create configure.ac, an autoconf script to generate ./configure
This will be needed by a subsequent patch to properly handle
--build and --host, and more tests, when the kconfig stuff will
be installed pre-built.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Konrad submitted an initial patch adding multlib support:
http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2011-11/msg00040.html
The patch was full of good ideas, but had a few issues, so
I (Yann E. MORIN) started it all from scatch, re-using part
of the original patch. This got implemented in this series:
hg log -r 446a17b5dd1e:e47d17391ae3
As I forgot to credit Konrad in these changelogs, update the
docs so that the work by Konrad gets credited. Without his
initial effort, we would probably not have had multlib support
so soon. Thank you Konrad!
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Expand the documentation for using a crosstool-NG-generated toolchain for
building a root filesystem for a target device.
Signed-off-by: "Trevor Woerner" <twoerner@gmail.com>
yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr: some eye-candy]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
In the very beginnings, eons ago, autotools also got confused by this
whole build vs. host vs. target, and got it wrong. Now they fixed it,
but they want to keep backward compatibility, so the --target is still
recongised, although ./configure will complain if you do so. It is
better to use --host.
Signed-off-by: "Trevor Woerner" <twoerner@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr: add build/host clarification]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Documented how to format description lines for packages patches.
Added a note on enforcing Signed-off-by lines.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hope <michael.hope@linaro.org>
[yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr: further describe the desc line]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
make-3.82 now refuses to have both normal and implicit rules in the
same definition, so document the issue with a known workaround.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
With Xcode 4.1 'gcc' is symlinked llvm-gcc-4.2 which cannot bootstrap
other gccs.
See http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=9571
On my machine the faulty gcc is
gcc version 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)
Document a workaround.
Signed-off-by: "Titus von Boxberg" <titus@v9g.de>
libtoolize must be checked_for and there needs to be a wrapper
that points to GNU libtoolize since that may be installed
as glibtoolize.
This fixes a problem with building Cloog/PPL that was
Reported-by: "Pierrick Brossin" <pierrick@bs-network.net>
Signed-off-by: "Titus von Boxberg" <titus@v9g.de>
As time passes, a known issues can be no longer applicable (because
the component has been fixed, or a workaround ahs been added in the
crosstool-NG scripts/config...).
Some may also be unconfirmed, with no way to easily trigger the error,
or applies to old versions of components...
Add a status for every known issues.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Depending on local policies, some users have expressed a need to
have the sysroot be named differently than the hard-coded name.
Add an option for that.
Default to 'sysroot' to match the existing literature.
While at it, replace 'sys-root' with 'sysroot' everywhere we
reference the sysroot.
Reported-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <Alexey.KUZNETSOV@youtransactor.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
The overview.txt file has evolved into more than just an overview.
Split it into chapters, and include the misc tutorials.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
The docs/CREDITS file dates back to the SVN repository.
Now that we use Mercurial, the repository stores appropriate
authorship for each commit. Say so in the CREDITS.
The usage of hg mq is imho not very well documented.
Give a short intro for the most important use cases
for contributions to ct-ng.
yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr:
Slightly rewrote the explanations for the introductory message.
When acting as a backend for a build-system, we should not build
any application that runs on the target, that is:
- no native gdb
- no companion libraries
- no binutils libraries
- no debug tools (save for gdbserver)
- ...
Here, we simply prepare the (hidden) config option that will detect
that we are acting as a back-end.
Update doc accordingly.
Remove references to the seemingly native toolchains do not build
issue as it seems to be fixed.
Signed-off-by: Richard Strand <richard.strand@icomera.com>
