[OE-core] basic bitbake commands to create an SDK?
Denys Dmytriyenko
denis at denix.org
Tue Oct 25 18:29:39 UTC 2016
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:53:24PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Khem Raj wrote:
>
> > generally meta-toolchain is prior art. You want to use image
> > specific SDKs so -cpopulate_sdk <image> is fine. In this case it
> > will include the needed dev headers/libs in your SDK for that given
> > image automatically it can be any image
>
> ah, good to know, i was starting to get that impression from the
> readings. (is there any mention in the docs that meta-toolchain is
> deprecated? if that's the correct word.)
It's not really depricated! It's still useful in cases when you need a
standalone toolchain that is not based on any specific image recipe.
It's prone to errors and more complicated for beginners, hence the new "-c
populate_sdk" method is recommended by default, unless you know what you
are doing...
> > I would recommend to try using eSDK, which can be generated using
> > -cpopulate_sdk_ext see
> >
> > https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Application_Development_with_Extensible_SDK
>
> i was just perusing the testsdk.bbclass file, where i read at the
> top:
>
> # testsdk.bbclass enables testing for SDK and Extensible SDK
> #
> # For run SDK tests you need to do,
> # - bitbake core-image-sato -c populate_sdk
> # - bitbake core-image-sato -c testsdk
> #
> # For run eSDK tests you need to do,
> # - bitbake core-image-sato -c populate_sdk_ext
> # - bitbake core-image-sato -c testsdkext
>
> does that testing actually require the core-image-sato image? that's
> certainly what those comments seem to suggest.
>
> rday
>
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