[OE-core] SDK confusion!

[Mark Hatle]

On 12/17/12 4:11 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> On 17 December 2012 20:58, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> On 17 December 2012 16:40, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
>>> On 12/17/12 9:31 AM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm really confused about how to use/customize the generated SDK in
>>>> openembedded. I've spent two days messing around with angstrom
>>>> setup-scripts, poky and yocto and now I really need help.
>> [...]
>>> In oe-core with the branch tag 'denzil' or the master, there are two ways of
>>> generating an SDK.
>>>
>>> The first (which is also present in the older oe-core systems) uses a
>>> specific SDK recipe.  For instance, meta-toolchain.  This recipe simply
>>> makes the toolchain elements available to you and you need to provide the
>>> necessary sysroot for your SDK.  An alternative is something like
>>> meta-toolchain-gmae which provides a specific set of sysroot components for
>>> the 'gnome mobile applicable environment.'
>>>
>>> The advantage of this first way is it allows a product designer to release a
>>> targeted SDK for their application developers.  You don't have to put
>>> everything that will end up on the target image into the SDK, only the
>>> libraries, headers and interfaces that an app developer are allowed to use.
>>>
>>> The second way (which is newer) is the ability to generate an SDK based on
>>> the contents of the image.  This uses a new task called "populate_sdk" that
>>> can be run with any image recipe, i.e. "bitbake core-image-minimal -c
>>> populate_sdk". This will generate an SDK image that includes the software
>>> from the image, in addition to related -dev and -dbg packages.
>>>
>>> The advantage of this second way is that you have an SDK that enables
>>> developing for the contents of the image, as well as system wide
>>> cross-debugging with the -dbg packages.
>>>
>>> The items below are specific to one packaging system, opkg.  The items above
>>> are generic and are expected to work in any of the supported methods.
>>
>> Thank you very much!
>>
>> "bitbake <image-name> -c populate_sdk" is exactly what I want. Brilliant!
>
> Hm, that didn't work so well for me:
>
> bfo at mini:~/setup-scripts [git::master]$ bitbake console-image -c populate_sdk
> Loading cache: 100%
> |########################################################################################################################################################################|
> ETA:  00:00:00
> Loaded 2858 entries from dependency cache.
>
> OE Build Configuration:
> BB_VERSION        = "1.15.2"
> TARGET_ARCH       = "arm"
> TARGET_OS         = "linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE           = "beaglebone"
> DISTRO            = "angstrom"
> DISTRO_VERSION    = "v2012.05"
> TUNE_FEATURES     = "armv7a vfp neon cortexa8"
> TARGET_FPU        = "vfp-neon"
> meta-angstrom     =
> "angstrom-v2012.05-yocto1.2:4e15bc5f06ae3c5ad3df1b32a304a4a4c384e788"
> meta-oe
> toolchain-layer
> meta-efl
> meta-gpe
> meta-gnome
> meta-xfce
> meta-initramfs    = "denzil:e77646bc2cf905fd671fc5c19ab6fd17f9b94b3f"
> meta-opie         = "master:efa3892b20a4ef80274e56e5633ebd62c16f9731"
> meta-java         = "master:3386ea6c96096f107f43f282f654e5afa456109e"
> meta-browser      = "master:c47f59df2e723495679c751cbdf6a8c6adec4b6a"
> meta-mono         = "master:83f8233b0498aadb18bf7605c3ba6c71d9e13a3a"
> meta-kde          = "master:5b0882d951cfd71886d423c190faaa7c7f932333"
> meta-ti           =
> "angstrom-staging-yocto1.2:edfd9649cbd16b2cdb5385954c0441c7bba92f8d"
> meta-efikamx      = "master:2c09a3a780b23448e8a6ca964256ff7f5ccba65d"
> meta-nslu2        = "master:3d9fc951b05b4df476374b6fc3085ebac7f293ee"
> meta-htc
> meta-nokia
> meta-openmoko
> meta-palm         = "master:2b106be01228f64298d6cb338f93088806594344"
> meta-handheld     = "master:1f05a15aceb4c3a19fa070463b58125b5658b2a9"
> meta-raspberrypi  = "denzil:34eef2ea4f5f24630dbb73b386861430167b8431"
> meta-intel
> meta-sugarbay
> meta-crownbay
> meta-emenlow
> meta-fishriver
> meta-fri2
> meta-jasperforest
> meta-n450         = "master:f75f9b6f68473eb0efac802409608f8389be0030"
> meta              = "denzil:d35560f33f257bd12a07c7c0be770319086d6ad9"
>
> NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
> NOTE: Preparing runqueue
> ERROR: Task do_populate_sdk does not exist for target console-image
>
> Summary: There was 1 ERROR message shown, returning a non-zero exit code.
> bfo at mini:~/setup-scripts [git::master]$

See above:

 > meta-angstrom     =
 > "angstrom-v2012.05-yocto1.2:4e15bc5f06ae3c5ad3df1b32a304a4a4c384e788"

This is Yocto Project 1.2, the feature arrived sometime between 1.2 and 1.3.

The 'danny' branch is 1.3, 'denzil' is 1.2.  I may have said 'denzil' by 
accident in the last email.

Basically you need a newer oe-core to use this feature, or you need to backport it.

--Mark

>
> Suggestions?
>
> Best regards,
> Bjørn Forsman
>