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[Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/18/2013 11:07 AM, Sergio Schvezov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:57:23AM -0300, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo wrote:
> > On 04/18/2013 09:44 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > > hi
> > > On Do, 2013-04-18 at 15:32 +0300, Jani Monoses wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I notice there are a four ARM cross compilers for linux-x86 in our tree.
> > > > Is it because various hw has been only shown to build and work
> > > > correctly with a specific one only?
> > > >
> > > > ./prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.3/
> > > > ./prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-linux-androideabi-4.6/
> > > > ./prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/linaro-4.7.2/
> > > > ./prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-eabi-4.6/
> >
> > We have multiple toolchains but I believe only the linaro one is
> > being actually used at the build, that's why Oliver pointed that the
> > build worked when removing the others.
>
> Wait, don't forget about that kernel rule to use 4.6 (IIRC). That should
> stay even if we get all the nexus kernels in from packages or think of a
> way for porters to get it working, or some extra download in the
> cm.dependencies for the device.

Right, indeed, the 4.6 based toolchain is only used by the kernel currently.

Should probably stay as well.

Cheers,
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Ricardo Salveti de Araujo