Re: Junk install script created upon bitbake meta-toolchain

[Daiane Angolini <daiane.angolini@freescale.com>]

On 08/23/2013 05:58 PM, Umar Qureshey wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Daiane Angolini [mailto:daiane.angolini@freescale.com]
>> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 1:24 PM
>> To: Umar Qureshey
>> Cc: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org
>> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] Junk install script created upon bitbake meta-
>> toolchain
>>
>> On 08/23/2013 05:01 PM, Umar Qureshey wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Yocto hasn't been fun so far.  It's unwieldy, hard to use, and even harder to
>> learn.  Even LTIB made more sense.  I hope it's worth the trouble.
>>
>> LOL
>>
>> Welcome! If you wish I can lend you one of my shoulders, and let's cry
>> together
>>
>>>
>>> Anyway, I am using Dylan branch and I just did a "bitbake meta-toolchain"
>> and this ran fine.  Then I attempted to install the toolchain on my system by
>> going into build/tmp/deploy/sdk and I attempted to execute poky-eglibc-
>> x86_64-arm-toolchain-1.4.2.sh but my system would error out so I opened
>> the file and after the actual source code, it's full of binary junk.  The junk has
>> ballooned the size of this script to 66 Megabytes.  No wonder it didn't
>> execute.  I'm not sure why this is happening.
>>>
>>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 lab lab 66M Aug 23 12:43
>>> poky-eglibc-x86_64-arm-toolchain-1.4.2.sh
>>>
>>> I am running on Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle on x86_64.
>>>
>>> I am going to manually trim the junk out and execute the script but this is a
>> major bug.
>>
>> Please, don't trim out the junk. It IS the toolchain
>>
>> I'm not able to say to you who/why/when it was decided that create a script
>> that includes the binary files is acceptable, but it was yocto project made.
>>
>> https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-95122
>> https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-95225
>>
>
> Thank you Daiane for lending a shoulder to cry on.  I'm almost there.
>
> Wow, the binary is embedded inside the script.  Because creating a separate file is just so much trouble.
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> I was following your document https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-95225 to do this.
> In your direction it says to "source poky-eglibc-x86_64-arm-toolchain-1.4.1.sh".  Well that causes trouble, at least on Fedora so I just executed the script without sourcing it and it worked fine.
> I left a comment for you on your document's comment section.

Thanks!

I'm used with Ubuntu and I never test on other flavor of linux. Thanks 
for reporting that! I'm sure it will help others


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Daiane