From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ORNMo-0000Cj-Gv for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:39:53 +0200 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ORNIO-0002or-6i for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:35:04 +0200 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:35:04 +0200 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:35:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:32:55 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20100623103600.77c5a6d9@xora-desktop.xora.org.uk> <20100623110315.16293a95@xora-desktop.xora.org.uk> <4C21DCD6.4090509@balister.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100524 Shredder/3.0.6pre In-Reply-To: <4C21DCD6.4090509@balister.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: introducing a new architecture/machine; policy ? (and a question) X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:39:53 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23-06-10 12:07, Philip Balister wrote: > On 06/23/2010 12:03 PM, Graeme Gregory wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:54:21 +0200 >> Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >> >>> 2010/6/23 Graeme Gregory: >>>>>>> Also I don't feel empowered to make changes in distribution >>>>>>> specific files. >>>> >>>> Why not, chances are Angstrom maintainers would be quite happy for >>>> you to patch angstrom*.conf if you ask us. >>>> >>>> Graeme >>> >>> distribution != angstrom >>> There are more distributions out there. > > Right now, toolchain selection is done in distro files not machine > files. I agree this is not the clearest approach, however adding the > toolchain selection to the machine files may have unexpected side effects. Think of multimachine builds. What happens when someone else adds *another* nios2 based machine with different toolchain versions, how do I know which toolchain avahi_1.0_nios2.ipk was compiled with? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFMIeLXMkyGM64RGpERAk0iAKCcXvyrUxGj2ZlsiV52sVhddsqr5wCcDgIS Noq5qjHf0Qm7qObCuCRL1bM= =VOH+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----