[OE-core] Two distros with same MACHINE

[Mike Looijmans]

On 08/13/2014 01:25 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 02:09:36PM +0300, Yevhen Kyriukha wrote:
>> 13 Авг 2014 г. 13:51 пользователь "Nicolas Dechesne" <
>> nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org> написал:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Yevhen Kyriukha <kirgene at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> I have 2 distro configs that use different PACKAGECONFIG settings for
>> the
>>>> same package. I'm building all distros for single MACHINE. Do I need to
>> set
>>>> different TMPDIR to build these two distros or I can use same dir?
>>>>
>>>
>>> yes, you should. i generally recommend to use 1 build dir for each
>>> combination of <machine>, <distro> and <OE version>. keep in mind that
>>> TMPDIR are 'cheap', assuming you are sharing ssate-cache, downloads
>>> and using rm_work..
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> I don't agree with separate dirs for <machine>.
>
> Sharing the native sysroot and huge part of deploy/ipk/<common-arch> is
> very useful for lowering disk space usage.
>

I'd name it as one of the major improvements over classic OE, being able to 
build multiple machines while sharing common things.

As for disk space, I found that it helps to occasionally remove the tmp dir 
and start over. That usually yields a few GB back. It would be nice if rm_work 
tried harder to remove stuff.

M.



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