[OE-core] Two distros with same MACHINE

[Koen Kooi]

Op 14 aug. 2014, om 13:13 heeft Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans at topic.nl> het volgende geschreven:

> 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.

Multi machine builds were possible with OE classic as well. It was tricky in the beginning (2005-ish) with the giant sysroot, but after per-arch sysroots were available it was pretty safe to do multi machine builds.

regards,

Koen

> 
> 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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> 
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