Re: basic bitbake commands to create an SDK?

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:53:24PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Khem Raj wrote:
> 
> > generally meta-toolchain is prior art. You want to use image
> > specific SDKs so -cpopulate_sdk <image> is fine. In this case it
> > will include the needed dev headers/libs in your SDK for that given
> > image automatically it can be any image
> 
>   ah, good to know, i was starting to get that impression from the
> readings. (is there any mention in the docs that meta-toolchain is
> deprecated? if that's the correct word.)

It's not really depricated! It's still useful in cases when you need a 
standalone toolchain that is not based on any specific image recipe.
It's prone to errors and more complicated for beginners, hence the new "-c 
populate_sdk" method is recommended by default, unless you know what you 
are doing...


> > I would recommend to try using eSDK, which can be generated using
> > -cpopulate_sdk_ext see
> >
> > https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Application_Development_with_Extensible_SDK
> 
>   i was just perusing the testsdk.bbclass file, where i read at the
> top:
> 
>   # testsdk.bbclass enables testing for SDK and Extensible SDK
>   #
>   # For run SDK tests you need to do,
>   # - bitbake core-image-sato -c populate_sdk
>   # - bitbake core-image-sato -c testsdk
>   #
>   # For run eSDK tests you need to do,
>   # - bitbake core-image-sato -c populate_sdk_ext
>   # - bitbake core-image-sato -c testsdkext
> 
> does that testing actually require the core-image-sato image? that's
> certainly what those comments seem to suggest.
> 
> rday
> 
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