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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 08:25 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> 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.
> The intended usage wasn't clear to me at first. I think it is
> something
> like "bitbake foobar-native" and then calling foobar's tools directly
> from tmp/work/*/foobar-native/*/recipe-sysroot-native (?).
> 
> If true, then any recipe intending to be used like that also needs to
> exclude itself from do_rm_work:
> RM_WORK_EXCLUDE += "${PN}"
> 
> Or perhaps more selectively exclude the RSS:
> RM_WORK_EXCLUDE_ITEMS += "recipe-sysroot-native" (is there a variable
> for this name?)

I've been idly wondering whether just excluding recipe-sysroot* from
rm_work might be useful since its mostly hardlinked files anyway and
likely doesn't cause too much of a space issue...

Cheers,

Richard