[Openembedded-architecture] Recipe Specific Sysroots

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 17:32 +0100, Andreas Müller wrote:
> I haven't looked into implementation details but appreciate the
> efforts on this. Getting DEPENDS right can turn to a random
> iteration.
> 
> One question: You might remember that I still (really) like using
> sysroot for quick remote debugging (have created a dirty helper [1]
> after gdb's source code pointers moved): Will there be a place with
> whole sysroot - maybe set by an option?
> 
> [1] https://github.com/schnitzeltony/meta-misc/blob/master/classes/in
> stant-remote.bbclass

Basically, no, there won't, at least not out the box.

It would likely be straightforward to have the code populate a sysroot
which corresponded to the image, or "sum" all the individual recipe
sysroot contents into one big one which when combined with the above
class, would give you have you have today. I'm not sure we'd want to do
that out the box for performance reasons although it could be a
standalone recipe I guess.

So it will change things but it should be possible to get what you need
one way or another.

Cheers,

Richard