Re: [PATCH] native.bbclass: populate native recipe with it's files

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

On Thu, 2017-02-16 at 15:46 -0800, Saul Wold wrote:
> This allows a native package's recipe-sysroot-native to be populated
> with
> that packages native image files.  This in turns allows it to be used
> by
> scripts or other tools without creating un-necessary DEPENDS.
> 
> An example of this is systemtap-native and the crosstap script.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/native.bbclass | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/native.bbclass
> b/meta/classes/native.bbclass
> index ec91fc3..d9dfea7 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/native.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/native.bbclass
> @@ -174,6 +174,11 @@ python native_virtclass_handler () {
>  addhandler native_virtclass_handler
>  native_virtclass_handler[eventmask] = "bb.event.RecipePreFinalise"
>  
> +python do_addto_recipe_sysroot () {
> +    bb.build.exec_func("extend_recipe_sysroot", d)
> +}
> +addtask addto_recipe_sysroot after do_populate_sysroot before
> do_build
> +
>  inherit nopackages

I'm fine with adding this task as a shortcut to allow the particular
recipe to be run from a recipe sysroot. What I don't want is every
recipe needing to run this all the time which the "before do_build"
enables. Can we do this without the do_build piece and manually run the
task where needed?

Cheers,

Richard