[OE-core] Heads up: xxx-nativesdk -> nativesdk-xxx change

[Khem Raj]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> As was previous discussed on the list a while ago, we have a problem
> with nativesdk where the code is getting complex and convoluted as its
> simply not possible to automatically "extend" using a suffix.
>
> Extension using a prefix works comparatively well be comparison as shown
> by the multilib code. Its for this reason I'd like to switch the
> meta-toolchain nativesdk recipes to become a prefix rather than a
> suffix.
>
> I'm going to propose some patches soon that do this. The patches are
> fairly nasty to write and maintain so will need to merge fairly quickly.
>
> If anyone does have a strong objection to this change, now is the time
> to raise it. I'd prefer not to have to do this but having considered all
> the options, its the best thing to do for the future and will result in
> cleaner metadata (look at PKGSUFFIX in eglibc for an example of how
> messy this gets).

I think we should then also remove prefixing others too for consistency

its hard enough to get the OE terminology to users for gcc and
gcc-cross and gcc-crosssdk and so on and now we are creating an
anomaly here. I am ok
if call it cross-gcc and crosssdk-gcc and native-gcc and so on. That
will make it consistent to prefix everything then

>
> Note that -native are unchanged and there is no problem or planned
> change which them, this just affects nativesdk.
>
> An example WIP patch is:
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=rpurdie/t1&id=2aa1acf11dd26bc194668be81544d08ab5e9bb24
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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