From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (hermes.mlbassoc.com [64.234.241.98]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E75704C80BD4 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:34:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 639FF16607F6; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:34:06 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750C216607EA; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:34:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4CC95FAD.9050801@mlbassoc.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:34:05 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ke, Liping" References: <4CC89AA5.7080900@mlbassoc.com> <8EA2C2C4116BF44AB370468FBF85A77701969CD2DE@orsmsx504.amr.corp.intel.com> <4CC8B08D.10402@mlbassoc.com> <789F9655DD1B8F43B48D77C5D30659732FC450EE@shsmsx501.ccr.corp.intel.com> <789F9655DD1B8F43B48D77C5D30659732FC45129@shsmsx501.ccr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <789F9655DD1B8F43B48D77C5D30659732FC45129@shsmsx501.ccr.corp.intel.com> Cc: Poky Subject: Re: Using prebuilt toolchains X-BeenThere: poky@pokylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:34:07 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/27/2010 08:35 PM, Ke, Liping wrote: > Hi, Gary > > Seems I misunderstand something. Seems what you want is about how to > create a recipe which could reuse you pre-build images and save build > time. > > But anyway, for normal application developers, providing an easy-to-use > sdk-toolchain tarball is helpful. In theory, they have no needs to build > the whole poky system by themselves. Sadly, that's what they insist on :-( Mostly my customers want to be able to [re]build exactly what's in their embedded environment, typically from scratch. Poky does this great, but the overhead of rebuilding the toolchain is a huge portion of the effort. As for Kevin's comment: > > On the other hand, I think the new checksum and task based prebuilt can serve similar > purpose for you... or even more since your users should be happier if you could provide more > prebuilt stuff to them besides just toolchain. This is the merit of this project, to have end > user really focusing on their own customization and value-added bits. :-) > This would be great and I've been working with Richard on it for a long time. Sadly, it still doesn't work correctly and provides no benefit in its current state. ... I keep using Poky (at the very bleeding edge) and hoping :-) >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: poky-bounces@pokylinux.org [mailto:poky-bounces@pokylinux.org] >>> On Behalf Of Gary Thomas >>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 2:33 PM >>>> To: Poky >>>> Subject: [poky] Using prebuilt toolchains >>>> >>>> Congratulations on Laverne (4.0) and Yocto - I hope they are >>>> prosperous for all :-) >>>> >>>> Is there any way to configure Poky (laverne) with a prebuilt >>>> toolchain, e.g. a meta-toolchain setup? I no longer see any >>>> mention of this in the manual (although I've never succeeded >>>> to use such, no matter how hard I've tried) >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Gary Thomas | Consulting for the >>> MLB Associates | Embedded world >>> ------------------------------------------------------------ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> poky mailing list >>> poky@pokylinux.org >>> https://lists.pokylinux.org/listinfo/poky >> _______________________________________________ >> poky mailing list >> poky@pokylinux.org >> https://lists.pokylinux.org/listinfo/poky -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------