From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from emailgateway.hillcrestlabs.com ([12.173.51.132]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NCaqM-0007lv-Rg for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:28:50 +0100 X-AuditID: 0a1e000a-b7b8cae000000d7b-4c-4b0aa9d54567 From: Chris Conroy To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org In-Reply-To: <1258901140-30575-1-git-send-email-bernhard.kaindl@gmx.net> References: <1258901140-30575-1-git-send-email-bernhard.kaindl@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:26:48 -0500 Message-Id: <1258990008.8426.29.camel@conroy-linux> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 12.173.51.132 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: Chris.Conroy@hillcrestlabs.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: [PATCH] external-toolchain: Really accept toolchains built by meta-toolchain.bb X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:28:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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