[OE-core] [PATCH v3] Introduce multiarch DISTRO_FEATURE

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 21:32 +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Richard Purdie
>> > What specific problem are you trying to solve?
>>
>> The specific issue I'm having is for our 64-bit part that still uses a
>> 32-bit u-boot. Not sure the best approach really is...
>
> Hmm, does it really need libgcc?

I pretty sure... I don't think it uses much though.

>
>> I've tried utilizing multilib by adding the following to my u-boot
>> recipe, but it's just hacky...
>>
>> DEPENDS_e5500-64b_append = " lib32-gcc"
>> CC_e5500-64b = "powerpc-poky-linux-gcc -m32"
>>
>> I'd rather NOT recompile gcc/eglibc/etc just for this 32-bit build of
>> u-boot where we don't need libc. I'd rather just have a functional
>> 32bit/64bit compiler for our 64-bit target.
>
> The trouble is that you need glibc-intermediate to build gcc-cross
> (which builds a functional libgcc). You therefore can't short circuit
> this as much as you think :/.

Is there a way to skip eglibc then? That would make things much better.

-M