From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 93-97-173-237.zone5.bethere.co.uk ([93.97.173.237] helo=tim.rpsys.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Od3Wv-00009t-Ob for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:54:22 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6PFs7mG009347 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:54:07 +0100 Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tim.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08908-07 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:54:03 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.3.10] ([192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6PFs2C7009341 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:54:03 +0100 From: Richard Purdie To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org In-Reply-To: References: <1279963975-3736-1-git-send-email-raj.khem@gmail.com> <20100724212502.GA4218@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:53:56 +0100 Message-ID: <1280073236.13006.125.camel@rex> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rpsys.net X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 93.97.173.237 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: rpurdie@rpsys.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC, TVD_RCVD_IP autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Make multi-machine toolchains to co-exist. 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: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:54:22 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 17:10 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: > > And cacao: > > > > | configure: error: armv7a systems are not supported at this time > > | ERROR: Function do_configure failed > > > >> yes I was expecting that kind of problems. openssl also has similar issues. > > > >> another idea that struck me was that we could change the target triplet to drop > >> TARGET_VENDOR and replace it with TARGET_SUB_ARCH and TARGET_SUBARCH > >> could be anything > >> we could even make it same as MACHINE_ARCH which means you will build > >> toolchain per machine > >> and they will live together. > > > >> then the tool names will be something like arm-v7-linux-gnueabi-* > >> powerpc-e500-linux-gnu > >> mips-mips2-linux etc. instead of *-angstrom-*- or *-oe-*- > > > >> or arm-beagleboad-linux-gnueabi-* etc if we go with MACHINE_ARCH > > > >> that would keep all recipe configury happy as the arch detected from > >> config.guess will be what > >> we had (arm, mips, mipsel powerpc etc) so no changes needed but we > >> will have to drop the brand > > > >> does it sound good ? bad? > > I don't think abusing target vendor for that is a good idea. And I'm > quite attached to my angstrom branded toolchains, tbh. Note that you can still append your angstrom string to the vendor part of the triplet... Cheers, Richard