Re: [PATCH] external-toolchain: Really accept toolchains built by meta-toolchain.bb

[Chris Conroy <Chris.Conroy@hillcrestlabs.com>]

On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 15:45 +0100, Bernhard Kaindl wrote:
> external-toolchain-generic,
> external-toolchain:
> 
> * The current external-toolchain recipes which are documented to accept
>   toolchains built by meta-toolchain actually do not accept such because
>   they expect ${prefix}/package-status to exist which is provieded by
>   the poky toolchains but not the current OE meta-toolchain package.
> 
>   Fix this by also looking for ${prefix}/usr/lib/opkg/status, which is the
>   package-status file of the OE meta-toolchain package.
> 
> * Also change the error message which is shown when neither file is found
>   more explicit.

What about changing the meta-toolchain to generate the environment-setup
script? While it's not important to have the script for normal building
of packages, I've found it helpful to be able to do a quick compile of a
test program here or there. Though, I understand that it might be
dangerous since some folks might think the environment-setup creates an
an entire cross building platform for them when they really want to stay
inside OE....

--Chris