[OE-core] Can OE build it's own make?

[Burton, Ross]

On 10 December 2013 17:16, Mats Kärrman <Mats.Karrman at tritech.se> wrote:
> On: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 5:41 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> "bitbake make-native" should be sufficient instructions to build a
>> replacement make.
>
> Ouch, that was simple.
> Unfortunately the consistently failing build doesn't feel like failing
> right now so I can't verify that it works.
>
> Assuming that it works, I could of course add make-native to the
> depends of the troublesome recipe but what if I'd like to use the
> new make for all recipes? Is there somewhere else I could put the
> dependency to force bitbake to build make "first of all"?

As far as I know there isn't an easy "build this first" hook as it
leads to scary dependency cycles and issues.

There's also the buildtools tarball which contains pre-built binaries
for most of the tools that we expect the host to have:

http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.5/buildtools/

Ross