Re: [PATCH] external-toolchain: Really accept toolchains built by meta-toolchain.bb

[Chris Simmonds <chris@2net.co.uk>]

Chris Conroy wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 15:45 +0100, Bernhard Kaindl wrote:
>> external-toolchain-generic,
>> external-toolchain:
>>
>> * The current external-toolchain recipes which are documented to accept
>>   toolchains built by meta-toolchain actually do not accept such because
>>   they expect ${prefix}/package-status to exist which is provieded by
>>   the poky toolchains but not the current OE meta-toolchain package.
>>
>>   Fix this by also looking for ${prefix}/usr/lib/opkg/status, which is the
>>   package-status file of the OE meta-toolchain package.
>>
>> * Also change the error message which is shown when neither file is found
>>   more explicit.
> 
> What about changing the meta-toolchain to generate the environment-setup
> script? While it's not important to have the script for normal building
> of packages, I've found it helpful to be able to do a quick compile of a
> test program here or there. Though, I understand that it might be
> dangerous since some folks might think the environment-setup creates an
> an entire cross building platform for them when they really want to stay
> inside OE....
> 
> --Chris

meta-toolchain does generate environment-setup and so far as I am aware 
it works fine as a stand-alone toolchain. Is there some reason why I 
should not be using it as such?

Chris S.