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#
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# The basic principle is the following
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#
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-# 1. a. For toolchains downloaded from the Web, Buildroot already
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-# knows their configuration, so it just downloads them and extract
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-# them in $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DIR).
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+# 1. If the toolchain is not pre-installed, download and extract it
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+# in $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DIR).
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#
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-# 1. b. For pre-installed toolchains, perform some checks on the
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+# 2. For all external toolchains, perform some checks on the
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# conformity between the toolchain configuration described in the
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# Buildroot menuconfig system, and the real configuration of the
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# external toolchain. This is for example important to make sure that
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# options. And at configuration time, we are not able to retrieve the
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# external toolchain configuration.
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#
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-# 2. Copy the libraries needed at runtime to the target directory,
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+# 3. Copy the libraries needed at runtime to the target directory,
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# $(TARGET_DIR). Obviously, things such as the C library, the dynamic
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# loader and a few other utility libraries are needed if dynamic
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# applications are to be executed on the target system.
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#
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-# 3. Copy the libraries and headers to the staging directory. This
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+# 4. Copy the libraries and headers to the staging directory. This
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# will allow all further calls to gcc to be made using --sysroot
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# $(STAGING_DIR), which greatly simplifies the compilation of the
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# packages when using external toolchains. So in the end, only the
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# cross-compiler binaries remains external, all libraries and headers
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# are imported into the Buildroot tree.
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#
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-# 4. Build a toolchain wrapper which executes the external toolchain
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+# 5. Build a toolchain wrapper which executes the external toolchain
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# with a number of arguments (sysroot/march/mtune/..) hardcoded,
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# so we're sure the correct configuration is always used and the
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# toolchain behaves similar to an internal toolchain.
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