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authorDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2020-05-08 21:31:56 -0400
committerDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2020-05-08 21:31:56 -0400
commitdadc7238b414da4b5eae50b5fa187b96d5d53801 (patch)
tree53f1d96f0a21f396968794e0c069d6740767e1a2 /static
parent0a609f7cc408155ec5b00abdbf8c49c70ce966ce (diff)
only libgcc is needed now for host compilation
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<p>Additional Linux kernel build dependencies not provided by the source tree:</p>
<ul>
- <li>gcc (for the host, not the target)</li>
+ <li>libgcc (for the host, not the target)</li>
<li>binutils (for the host, not the target)</li>
<li>which</li>
<li>bc</li>
<li>cmp (diffutils)</li>
</ul>
- <p>The dependency on the host gcc and binutils for building utilities during the build
- process is being phased out by using the same LLVM toolchain as building and linking
- for the target.</p>
+ <p>The dependency on the host libgcc and binutils for building utilities during the
+ build process will be phased out by moving to a pure LLVM-based toolchain alongside
+ doing it for the target. This is lagging a bit behind for the kernel, particularly
+ code built for the host.</p>
<p>Additional Android Open Source Project build dependencies not provided by the
source tree:</p>