[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 06/15/2011 03:23 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 12:18 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Op 15 jun 2011, om 12:16 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 09:00 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>> Op 15 jun 2011, om 01:12 heeft Khem Raj het volgende geschreven:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Koen Kooi<koen at dominion.thruhere.net>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Op 14 jun 2011, om 23:40 heeft Khem Raj het volgende geschreven:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Koen Kooi<koen at dominion.thruhere.net>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BASE_PACKAGE_ARCH = "${@['armv5teb',
>>>>>>> 'armv5te'][bb.data.getVar('SITEINFO_ENDIANESS', d, 1) == 'le']}"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS = "${@['armeb armv4b armv4tb armv5teb', 'arm armv4
>>>>>>> armv4t armv5te'][bb.data.getVar('SITEINFO_ENDIANESS', d, 1) == 'le']}"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and this does not get evaluated properly then
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But that wouldn't matter in the scope of allarch, though?
>>>>>
>>>>> SITEINFO_ENDIANESS  = "${@siteinfo_get_endianess(d)}"
>>>>>
>>>>> def siteinfo_get_endianess(d):
>>>>>       info = get_siteinfo_list(d)
>>>>>       if 'endian-little' in info:
>>>>>              return "le"
>>>>>       elif 'endian-big' in info:
>>>>>              return "be"
>>>>>       bb.error("Site info could not determine endianess for target")
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>> get_siteinfo_list has this
>>>>>
>>>>>       targetinfo = {\
>>>>>               "allarch-linux":           "",\
>>>>>
>>>>> hence siteinfo_get_endianess ends up with
>>>>>
>>>>> bb.error("Site info could not determine endianess for target")
>>>>>
>>>>> may be we need to differentiate with None return and empty string
>>>>> return along with 'endian-little' and 'endian-big'
>>>>> or may be add another option called 'endian-neutral'
>>>>
>>>> Or just add a bogus endianness: http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/meta-openembedded/commit/?id=f95ffd6cedb2a0fcad9db1b2d612663a327be87b
>>>
>>> This is just papering over cracks. "allarch" packages shouldn't be
>>> querying endianness, it really is that simple.
>>
>> This isn't the recipes querying the endianness, but the class itself.
>
> Er, if nothing references the appropriate variable, the query is never
> made...

certain variables which are common across all kind of recipes e.g. 
IMAGE_NAME could use endian information to have endian information in
image name but they get evaluated in all recipes. so there in lies the 
problem


>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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