Re: [PATCH] Add a waf bitbake class. (Koen Kooi)

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

Sean_Hudson@Dell.com wrote:
> On 18-06-10 21:58, Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl> wrote:
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>> On 18-06-10 21:58, Sean_Hudson@Dell.com wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>   We are using waf for some of our modules and decided to add a class to make it easier to write recipes.
>> Why is there still a staging method in there? Those have been deprecated
>> for months now.
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to reply.  To answer your question, the waf class was cloned from the autotools.bbclass, so the staging stuff came from there.  Is there a better way to handle the staging?
> 
> It's a fairly trivial class, but I'm interested to hear if anyone had any additional thoughts on ways to improve the class?

Koen's point is that for a long time now do_stage has been set as legacy 
and 'do_install' should instead set things up such that a package can 
then be installed into the sysroots/ directory and reused.  Like 
autotools.bbclass does today :)

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation