[OE-core] [RFC] gcc-cross.inc: Add depedency on BUILD_ARCH

[Khem Raj]

On (24/11/11 10:54), Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 07:29 +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > hmmm I guess cross recipes are special they should not have been built
> > > under target recipes. Adding build arch to package name would be ok
> > > too but may be if they were built under directory of their own which
> > > was something like <build>-<host>-<target> then it would also solve
> > > the problem i think
> > 
> > I agree - this is the discussion I'm trying to start. ;)
> 
> It's certainly true that the way the cross recipes are done at the
> moment does suck.  Really, they should be built as primarily native and
> the target arch ought to just be encoded into ${PN} somehow, rather than
> the current arrangement of pretending that they are target recipes.
> (All the runtime bits are, or should be, packaged separately by either
> libgcc or gcc-runtime so they will already get the right PACKAGE_ARCH.)

yes building them under native build dir and suffixing with
build.host.arch would be way to go

> 
> There are some old (and probably rather bit-rotten) patches to do that
> in the pb/toolchain-desuck branch of oe-classic.  I'm not sure whether
> any of that stuff will apply to modern oe-core but the general principle
> ought still to be valid.
> 
> p.
> 
> 
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-Khem