[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 0/7] Move gcc target libs installation to target package

[Romain Naour]

Hello Thomas,

Le 30/09/2023 à 09:54, Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> Currently, the gcc runtime libraries installed in
> STAGING_DIR/TARGET_DIR are installed by host-gcc-final, a host
> package. It works of course, but isn't very clean. But more
> importantly, it prevents us from having a sane handling of licensing
> for gcc. Indeed, the host gcc components are GPLv3, but the target
> components of gcc are GPLv3 with the important linking exception.
> 
> In order to handle this, this series proposes to split the
> host-gcc-final package into a host package (which already exists) and
> a target package (which is added as part of this series). The logic
> installing the gcc runtime libraries is moved to the target gcc-final
> package. Once this is done, the series adds the relevant licensing
> information to host-gcc-initial, host-gcc-final and gcc-final.

Series applied to master.

Best regards,
Romain


> 
> Changes from v1:
> 
> - Instead of introducing a separate gcc-runtime package, keep the
>   logic in gcc-final, but with a target variant package. This was
>   suggested by Romain Naour and indeed makes a lot of sense.
> 
> - Split into finer grained commits now that we're keeping things in
>   gcc-final.mk.
> 
> Thomas Petazzoni (7):
>   package/gcc/gcc-final: rework installation of libgcc_s/libatomic
>   package/gcc/gcc-final: remove useless comment and empty variable
>   package/gcc/gcc-final: move to make foreach loops
>   package/gcc/gcc-final: split lib install by target/staging
>   package/gcc/gcc-final: move hook further down
>   package/gcc/gcc-final: add a target variant in charge of target
>     installation
>   package/gcc: add license information
> 
>  package/gcc/Config.in                         |  3 +
>  package/gcc/gcc-final/gcc-final.mk            | 97 ++++++++-----------
>  package/gcc/gcc-initial/gcc-initial.mk        |  2 +
>  package/gcc/gcc.hash                          |  7 ++
>  package/gcc/gcc.mk                            |  3 +
>  toolchain/toolchain-buildroot/Config.in       |  1 +
>  .../toolchain-buildroot.mk                    |  4 +-
>  7 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 package/gcc/Config.in
>