<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 7:58 AM Robert P. J. Day <<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 5 Feb 2020, Joshua Watt wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 4:26 AM Robert P. J. Day <<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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> i've never defined a multiconfig build, but this section explaining<br>
> it in the BB user manual seems confusing:<br>
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> ///// start<br>
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> The following statement in the local.conf file both enables BitBake to<br>
> perform multiple configuration builds and specifies the two extra<br>
> multiconfigs:<br>
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> BBMULTICONFIG = "target1 target2"<br>
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> Once the target configuration files are in place and BitBake has been<br>
> enabled to perform multiple configuration builds, use the following<br>
> command form to start the builds:<br>
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> $ bitbake [mc:multiconfigname:]target [[[mc:multiconfigname:]target] ... ]<br>
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> Here is an example for two extra multiconfigs: target1 and target2:<br>
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> $ bitbake mc::target mc:target1:target mc:target2:target<br>
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> ///// end<br>
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> i don't understand the "mc::target" part of that last command, as it<br>
> does not seem to be compatible with the definition of the general form<br>
> of the command just above that, specifically:<br>
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> $ bitbake [mc:multiconfigname:]target ...<br>
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> can someone clarify this?<br>
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> "target" is the recipe you want to build, just as you would have specified if you were not using a "mc:multiconfig:"<br>
> prefix. For examples:<br>
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> # build core-image-minimal<br>
> bitbake mc:my-mulitconfig:core-image-minimal<br>
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> # build BusyBox<br>
> bitbake mc:my-mulitconfig:busybox<br>
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my confusion was with the example that started with the two colons:<br>
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$ bitbake mc::target ...<br>
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the manual doesn't seem to explain the meaning of that "::" bit.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ah sorry. I'm not sure. I've not seen that used much, if ever.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Based on the code, I would assume that's equivalent to just " bitbake target", but I'm not positive.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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rday</blockquote></div></div></div>