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Re: general questions about sysroot in building a toolchain


Robert,

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

(is there an online tutorial about the purpose and use of sysroot in
building a toolchain somewhere?)


Beware of what you ask. Some use a chroot() environment for the toolchain itself (to be vert
independent from the host tools/environment). And there is the sysroot style where you prepare a
target root filesystem on the host.


See these threads for a recent answer of the rationale of the last technique:

http://www.diy-linux.org/pipermail/diy-linux-dev/2005-September/thread.html

http://www.embeddedtux.org/pipermail/etux/2005-July/001080.html

Regards,

Leon.

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