Re: Getting TI tools into [host] SDK

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 06:00:24AM +0100, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2017-03-11 02:47, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> >>On 17-03-08 09:10:18, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >>>I'm trying to build a [host] SDK for my target which uses some
> >>>TI tools, via -c populate_sdk_ext
> >
> >Gary,
> >
> >We don't use -c populate_sdk to produce SDKs. Instead, we still rely on the
> >old meta-toolchain mechanism. First, because it can be incorporated into other
> >recipes - i.e. we have a recipe that combines rootfs and SDK into one tarball.
> >Second, it provides more control to what get's packaged into SDK. Third, it
> >doesn't have this undefined magic to packaging stuff - i.e. this post is an
> >example of it failing. And only one slight drawback - requires keeping rootfs
> >image recipe in sync with meta-toolchain SDK recipe...
> 
> As I understand, the meta-toolchain style(s) are deprecated.

Seems to still work fine here...


> Also using the populate_sdk_ext gets me many improvements such as 
> relocatable tools and 'devtool'

Yes, this one I can agree with - it's a nice addition to eSDK. But what about 
this one:
http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-extsdk-toolchain.bb


> >>>In particular, I'm using recipes-ti/devtools/ti-cgt-pru_2.1.4.bb
> >>>I include ti-cgt-pru-native to use the tools in my bitbake recipes - that works fine.
> >>>I include ti-cgt-pru in my target image to get the tools on my board - that also works.
> >>>
> >>>The problem is that in my SDK, none of the binaries are included, including clpru:
> >>>
> >>>$ ls -l /home/gthomas/my_ti_sdk/tmp/sysroots/rainier-p8701/usr/share/ti/cgt-pru
> >>>total 16
> >>>drwxrwxr-x 2 gthomas gthomas 12288 Mar  8 08:22 include
> >>>drwxrwxr-x 3 gthomas gthomas  4096 Mar  8 08:22 lib
> >>>
> >>>I added this to try and include the files:
> >>>  TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK += "'nativesdk-ti-cgt-pru"
> >>>and I can see that there was a nativesdk-ti-cgt-pru built which does have all the
> >>>executables included, they just aren't being packaged.
> >>>
> >>>$ ls tmp/work/x86_64-nativesdk-mysdk-linux/nativesdk-ti-cgt-pru/2.1.4-r0/image/opt/mydistro/2.2+snapshot/sysroots/x86_64-amltdsdk-linux/usr/share/ti/cgt-pru/bin
> >>
> >>perhaps you need to correct the install location for nativesdk may be
> >>via overriding do_install
> >
> >Why?
> >
> 
> 
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