[oe] [PATCH 0/7] Make multi-machine toolchains to co-exist (revised)

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com> wrote:
> Khem Raj wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Following series of patches are for making multi-machine toolchains
>> co-exist with
>> new cross staging for toolchain.
>>
>> It changes the toolchain triplet from ${TARGET_ARCH}-${VENDOR}-${OS} to
>> ${TARGET_ARCH}-${CPU_SUB_TARGET}_${VENDOR}-OS
>>
>> which means that a toolchain for armv7 is called
>> armi-v7a_oe-linux-gnueabi-*
>> and for armv5te its called arm-v5te_oe-linux-gnueabi-*
>
> Sorry to come in late here, but why can't we instead populate
> sysroot/../usr/bin/${MACHINE_SYS}/ and keep the old toolchain triplet?

yes we can. it will create its own directory structure under
usr/bin/${MACHINE_SYS} and we also have to fix the accesses to tools
it uses probably some
other humps too I have not pursues this.
gcc install supports multiple installations to live together  thats what
I am doing with these patches.
>
> --
> Tom Rini
> Mentor Graphics Corporation
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