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

[Chris Larson]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I agree, I think it'd be nice to just bite the bullet and change them
all, if we can manage it.
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Christopher Larson
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