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+OpenEmbedded/Yocto layer for the Sourcery G++ toolchain
+=======================================================
+
+Contributing
+------------
+
+URL: https://github.com/MentorEmbedded/meta-sourcery
+
+To contribute to this layer, please fork and submit pull requests to the above
+repository with github, or open issues for any bugs you find, or feature
+requests you have.
+
+Content review
+--------------
+
+- Fix `GNU_HASH` warnings / obey `LDFLAGS`
+
+    - imx-lib
+    - blktrace
+    - hostap
+    - gdbm
+    - setserial
+    - irda-utils
+    - python
+    - perl