Re: Difference between target, cross, native and nativesdk.

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 16:31 -0500, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 09:23:35PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 14:27 -0500, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:23:38AM -0200, Raphael Philipe wrote:
> > > > I was explained about the difference in a different way.
> > > > 
> > > > cross generates binary for the host architecture. But the way this
> > > > binary is generated depends of the target architecture. Native
> > > > generated binaries that do not depend of the target architecture.
> > > 
> > > Pretty much.
> > > 
> > > But another big difference is that -native packages do not generate IPK, RPM 
> > > or DEB, while -nativesdk, -cross, -crosssdk and -cross-canadian do.
> > 
> > -cross and -crosssdk do not generate packages.
> 
> Yeah, I thought so initially, but then I found depmodwrapper-cross and 
> qemuwrapper-cross packages in my deploy/ipk, which got me confused... They 
> seem to be special cases and only have scripts and not binaries. I wonder if 
> the name is misleading...

More like they shouldn't be getting packaged...

Cheers,

Richard