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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:41:50 +0000
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Subject: Re: how to share just the host tools among different builds?
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On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 07:53 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   i'm drawing a blank at the moment so this might be a trivial
> question -- is there a way to share the non-toolchain, host tools
> across different builds on my development host?
> 
>   if i'm doing closely-related builds (or even for totally different
> architectures), i can see the host tools that are built under
> tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/... and one would think that, theoretically,
> those tools are appropriate for all sorts of independent builds, even
> if the toolchain is different.
> 
>   is there a simple setting that allows me to take advantage of all
> those host tools that were built during an initial build, and continue
> to use them in subsequent builds?

Its called sstate ;-).

Just share the native parts between the builds. They're usually in a
distro specific directory.

Cheers,

Richard