From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from vms173017pub.verizon.net (vms173017pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.17]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CA05E00BC2 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:42:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gandalf.denix.org ([unknown] [71.191.205.189]) by vms173017.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0N3500ADWNQJ7540@vms173017.mailsrvcs.net> for poky@yoctoproject.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:42:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: by gandalf.denix.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0FC5F20357; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:42:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:42:19 -0400 From: Denys Dmytriyenko To: Anjandeep Sahni Message-id: <20140328164219.GG3370@denix.org> References: <53354CED.4090700@ti.com> MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: <53354CED.4090700@ti.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: "poky, mailing-list" Subject: Re: External Toolchain X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion & patch submission for meta-yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:42:31 -0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:50:29PM +0530, Anjandeep Sahni wrote: > Hi all, > > I am fairly new to poky. Just had a few queries. > > I wanted to know where exactly in the build directory does poky > build the default toolchain. > And also if I have to use an external linaro toolchain, how would I > go about it? Should I just include the meta-linaro layer, and add > the TCMODE variable to local.conf? > I downloaded and extracted the prebuilt binaries for linaro > toolchain. How do I point my build system to use these instead of > the default toolchain? Anjandeep, Please take a look at the presentation I gave at the last year ELC: http://elinux.org/images/c/c8/ExternalToolchainsInYocto.pdf Also, feel free to ping me directly at denys@ti.com if you are working on a project for TI - there's a lot of re-use potential... -- Denys