Re: [PATCH] boost: Split out bjam build tool and add real native support

[Stefan Herbrechtsmeier <stefan@herbrechtsmeier.net>]

Am 12.03.2013 12:58, schrieb Stefan Herbrechtsmeier:
> Am 12.03.2013 11:48, schrieb Koen Kooi:
>> Op 12 mrt. 2013, om 11:19 heeft Stefan Herbrechtsmeier 
>> <stefan@herbrechtsmeier.net> het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> Am 12.03.2013 00:44, schrieb Saul Wold:
>>>> On 03/07/2013 08:37 AM, Stefan Herbrechtsmeier wrote:
>>>>> The current boost recipe only creates the bjam build tool during
>>>>> a native run and thereby is not usable for other native programs
>>>>> that depend on a boost library. Split out the build tool into its
>>>>> own bjam recipe and add real native support to the boost recipe.
>>>>> This allows recipes to depend on native boost libraries without
>>>>> increase of the build time for other use cases.
>>>>>
>>>>> Native compilation of bzip2 isn't working and therefore disabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Herbrechtsmeier <stefan@herbrechtsmeier.net>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>   meta/recipes-support/boost/bjam_1.53.0.bb   |   21 +++++++++++
>>>>>   meta/recipes-support/boost/boost-1.53.0.inc |   21 +++++++++++
>>>>>   meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc        |   49 
>>>>> ++-------------------------
>>>>>   meta/recipes-support/boost/boost_1.53.0.bb  |    6 +--
>>>>>   4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
>>>>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-support/boost/bjam_1.53.0.bb
>>>>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-support/boost/boost-1.53.0.inc
>>>>>
>>>> This change seems to have caused a failure on my test build:
>>> Sorry, I missed the no native case. I rename bjam to bjam-native and 
>>> send a new patch. Bjam make no sense on the target as it is only 
>>> used for compiling.
>> And what if you need bjam to compile something on the target?
>
> Then you need to add cross compile support to bjam which is outside of 
> the scope of this patch.
I have realised that boost always compile bjam during do_boostconfig. I 
have rework the recipe to use this bjam version as this simplify the 
recipe and the update path.