[OE-core] [RFC] Build directory reuse issue - make WORKDIR machine specific?

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> On 9 December 2013 11:30, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> b) looks attractive but could be confusing as we'd no longer have
>> PACKAGE_ARCH workdirs, they'd all be "machine specific" however they
>> would still get reused by sstate as they are today. It does however
>> neatly sidestep the set of issues we're currently seeing.
>
> As someone who often switches between mostly-compatible machines
> (qemux86/qemux86-64/genericx86/nuc) I'm often hitting problems like
> this.  Most recently libproxy was using a sysroot that didn't exist,
> which prompted my cmake patch.
>
> Presumably the change would replace the package-architecture element
> in the path with the machine name.  Seems reasonable to me: a more
> logical layout of files without any meaningful impact to performance.

I agree with Ross here.

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