[OE-core] [PATCH 1/3] populate_sdk_ext: install the latest buildtools-tarball

[Christopher Larson]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com> wrote:

> If we do `bitbake buildtools-tarball' and then after one day do `bitbake
> core-image-minimal -c populate_sdk_ext', we would meet errors like below.
>
> | install: cannot stat
> '/buildarea2/chenqi/poky/build-systemd/tmp/deploy/sdk/
>
> poky-glibc-x86_64-buildtools-tarball-core2-64-buildtools-nativesdk-standalone
> -1.8+snapshot-20150429.sh': No such file or directory
>
> The problem is that the output name for buildtools-tarball has ${DATE} in
> it.
> So if populate_sdk_ext task is executed but buildtools-tarball is not
> rebuilt,
> the above error appears.
>
> Instead of hardcoding ${DISTRO_VERSION} which consists of ${DATE} in the
> install_tools() function, we should find the latest buildtools-tarball
> based
> on the modification time and install it.
>
> [YOCTO #7674]
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
>

Hmm, if buildtools-tarball is required, why not just pull it in via
dependencies and build a current one, rather than assuming/forcing the user
to have done so themselves?
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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