documentation: Reword introduction about external toolchains

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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Thomas Petazzoni 2010-11-24 12:05:52 +01:00
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<h2 id="external_toolchain">Using an external toolchain</h2> <h2 id="external_toolchain">Using an external toolchain</h2>
<p>It might be useful not to use the toolchain generated by <p>Using an already existing toolchain is useful for different
Buildroot, for example if you already have a toolchain that is known reasons:</p>
to work for your specific CPU, or if the toolchain generation feature
of Buildroot is not sufficiently flexible for you (for example if you <ul>
need to generate a system with <i>glibc</i> instead of <li>you already have a toolchain that is known to work for your
<i>uClibc</i>). Buildroot supports using an <i>external specific CPU</li>
toolchain</i>.</p> <li>you want to speed up the Buildroot build process by skipping
the long toolchain build part</li>
<li>the toolchain generation feature of Buildroot is not
sufficiently flexible for you (for example if you need to
generate a system with <i>glibc</i> instead of
<i>uClibc</i>)</li>
</ul>
<p>Buildroot supports using existing toolchains through a
mechanism called <i>external toolchain</i>.</p>
<p>To enable the use of an external toolchain, go to the <p>To enable the use of an external toolchain, go to the
<code>Toolchain</code> menu, and :</p> <code>Toolchain</code> menu, and :</p>