New tools and 4.6.99.3

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:56 +1100, Steven Johnson wrote:

> >LibChip:
> >
> >LibChip is pretty much useless for me, and I would prefer not to build
> >it.
Why? Except of a couple of seconds of build time, it doesn't cost you
much.

>   There is no option to not build LibChip, although the ./configure
> >system indicates it would be desirable.  I agree.  Currently a ATA
> >driver in libchip wont build for me, I think because I'm using a bare
> >bsp.
This would qualify as a bug. libchip must build for every target.

>   It would be useful for me to just disable it.  Any chance of this
> >becoming an option so i wont have to patch the source tree to remove it
> >from the build?
Very unlikely.

> This one does what it should, but I think it could be better.  At the
> very least I think this should be the default behavior for "bare" BSP's.
FWIW: the bare BSP's are not unlikely to fade out.

Ralf