[OE-core] [PATCH V2] allarch.bbclass: Set FEED_ARCH to original value of BASE_PACKAGE_ARCH and then set BASE_PACKAGE_ARCH to 'all'

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 14:13 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  meta/classes/allarch.bbclass |    5 +++--
>>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/classes/allarch.bbclass b/meta/classes/allarch.bbclass
>> index e3ac392..b9ba28b 100644
>> --- a/meta/classes/allarch.bbclass
>> +++ b/meta/classes/allarch.bbclass
>> @@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
>>  # This class is used for architecture independent recipes/data files (usally scripts)
>>  #
>>
>> +# We need to pour the value of BASE_PACKAGE_ARCH into FEED_ARCH
>> +# before we reset it
>> +FEED_ARCH := ${BASE_PACKAGE_ARCH}
>>  BASE_PACKAGE_ARCH = "all"
>> -PACKAGE_ARCH = "all"
>> -
>>  # No need for virtual/libc or a cross compiler
>>  INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
>
> This is a *really* bad idea. An "all" package should have no need to set
> architecture specific values into FEED_ARCH.
>
> Just for those not following IRC, the problem is Angstrom adds FEED_ARCH
> to OVERRIDES. Adding "all" to overrides turns out to do nasty things to
> classes like rm_work with "_all" in the function names.
>
> I'd suggest that various machines should start adding things like armv7a
> to ${MACHINEOVERRIDES} which has a much more clearly defined scope and
> that FEED_ARCH should quietly die ;-).

Would it make sense to add TARGET_SUBARCH variable ?

TARRGET_ARCH = arm
TARGET_SUBARCH = armv7a
MACHINE=beagleboard

and in bitbake.conf

TARGET_SUBARCH ??= "${TARGET_ARCH}"

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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