Background
Buildroot was one of the first build systems. It began as part of the uClinux and uClibc projects as a way of generating a small root filesystem for testing. It became a separate project in late 2001 and continued to evolve through to 2006, after which it went into a rather dormant phase. However, since 2009, when Peter Korsgaard took over stewardship, it has been developing rapidly, adding support for glibc based toolchains and a greatly increased number of packages and target boards.
As a matter of interest, Buildroot is also the ancestor of another popular build system, OpenWrt (http://wiki.openwrt.org), which forked from Buildroot around 2004. The primary focus of OpenWrt is to produce software for wireless routers, and so ...
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