Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] grub-efi-native: New recipe to build GRUB EFI images

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

On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 09:59 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 24 nov. 2011, om 09:05 heeft Darren Hart het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > Add a recipe to build the GRUB efi images. This recipe is written as
> > a native recipe as the resulting GRUB utils are required to assemble
> > the final image. Rather than build a native and a target recipe (and
> > increase build times), 
> 
> That's a false dilemma. If you write it as a regular recipe with
> BBCLASSEXTEND=native your buildtime doesn't increase

That isn't true, if you build a target and a native version your build
time does increase. Using BBCLASSEXTEND does improve parsing time over
having two separate recipes though.

>  and you leave open the option of adding more BBCLASSEXTENDS if
> someone wants to ship it in an SDK.

I did talk with Darren about why the recipe is the way it is and there
are some pretty nasty issues with the way grub builds itself. I'm
therefore ok with this as a version 1 and we can see whether there are
any issues that result which need us to rethink the way the recipe is
constructed. 

Its currently behaving very like the way the binutils/gcc cross recipes
will end up (see the separate thread with Matthew) Perhaps it should be
called grub-efi-cross even if it uses native.bbclass.

Cheers,

Richard