[OE-core] Does support for external toolchains working in current OE?

[Martin Jansa]

I've already tried that, systemd's configure does not respect that.


On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 11:20:44AM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>> > For last few months I am working on fixing Linaro binary cross
>> > toolchains and their support in OpenEmbedded. Got to point when they
>> > work (both AArch64 and ARMv7a ones) for single packages but problem
>> > starts when I want to create image...
>>
>> Today I got different king of issue with external toolchain.
>>
>> systemd is using AC_PATH_TOOL(OBJCOPY, objcopy)
>> but host prefix in OE is not the same as in binary toolchain (different
>> TARGET_VENDOR)
>> so it looks for configure:14545: checking for
>> arm-foo-linux-gnueabi-objcopy
>> while binary toolchain has only
>> arm-bar-linux-gnueabi-objcopy
>>
>> and because arm-foo-linux-gnueabi-objcopy wasn't found it continues:
>> configure:14588: checking for objcopy
>> configure:14606: found /usr/bin/objcopy
>> and bam a lot later when it tries objcopy from host on some arm lib
>>
>> Interesting that systemd is first recipe in our image where I've noticed
>> issues like this
>>
>> Any idea how to easily resolve this without checking every configure.ac
>> how it's looking for e.g. objcopy?
>
>
> export OBJCOPY in the environment to the one based on TARGET_PREFIX rather
> than TARGET_SYS, and it'll use that.
> --
> Christopher Larson
>
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