[OE-core] [PATCH] populate_sdk_ext: Log the "Preparing build system" step

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 10:31 -0700, Christopher Larson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Randy Witt
> <randy.e.witt at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>         When using bitbake to do the setscene as part of sdk setup, it
>         would be
>         useful to have a log in the case where it fails.
>         
>         The log is called preparing_build_system.log and is in the top
>         level
>         directory of the extracted sdk.
>         
>         Signed-off-by: Randy Witt <randy.e.witt at linux.intel.com>
> 
> Is this step just doing a setscene from shipped sstate, or is it
> intended to build anything from scratch? Because I've seen cases where
> the sstate isn't used as it should be, and it ends up taking ages to
> run real tasks.

Are you using http sstate mirrors out of interest?

I've been experimenting with them and there are some serious performance
issues trying to do that if there is any kind of network latency :(.

Cheers,

Richard