[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 00/10] Hob - BitBake GUI

[Joshua Lock]

On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 16:47 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 23:02 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote:
> > Of course, before sending this pull request I ran some final tests and
> > encountered a significant problem with the implementation approach.
> > Images are built by first using the buildTargets command to build all of the
> > target dependencies then creating a recipe file and using the buildFile
> > command to handle the build.
> > The problem is that if you have a clean build directory, perfectly reasonable
> > with such a tool, the buildFile command does not handle the native
> > dependencies added by the image class.
> > 
> > The alternative I have is to save the image files somewhere within BBPATH,
> > and perhaps suggest the user create a "workspace" layer, and build them with
> > buildTargets. I didn't do this because I'd rather not pollute the users file
> > system without good cause. It may be the only tenable approach though.
> > 
> > Any suggestions here?
> 
> I think you should be able to modify the base configuration data and
> just add a local directory that the image creator uses to BBPATH
> yourself?
> 
> That way you should always be able to use buildTargets...

Right. I had some code like this but I hadn't achieved it in a way which
was both a) non-invasive and b) didn't result in parsing a bunch of
stuff then throwing that away and parsing again. I'll look into this
approach some more.

Thanks for the feedback,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
        Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre