[OE-core] [PATCH 3/3] bitbake.conf: drop _build-${BUILD_OS} over-ride

[Christopher Larson]

Even if bitbake could run on WSL, it’d be horribly slow. I/O on WSL is
*terrible* right now, docker or a VM wipes the floor with it. I’m sure
it’ll be viable eventually, though :)

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Dan McGregor <danismostlikely at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 10 May 2018 at 10:33, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> > On 10 May 2018 at 16:47, Dan McGregor <danismostlikely at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm with Khem. meta-darwin and meta-mingw are things, even if they
> >> haven't been updated in years. If interest arises they shouldn't have
> >> too many barriers to starting development again. I've also started to
> >> attempt to build on a FreeBSD host.
> >
> > meta-mingw builds Windows binaries from Linux and meta-darwin builds
> > Darwin binaries from Linux, so they're not relevant.
>
> Neat, I only took a quick look; I guess I misinterpreted their purposes.
>
> >
> > People *are* at least trying to use Windows Subsystem for Linux to
> > build Yocto on Windows, but I suspect as far as bitbake is concerned
> > that is Linux.  There's no practical way we can build on macOS right
> > now due to the recent security changes.
>
> When I tried, early in the WSL testing, bitbake wouldn't start due to
> some missing syscalls. inotify related, IIRC.
>
> >
> > Builds on BSD would be interesting, I'm curious as to how much breaks
> > from GNU userland expectations and whether the build override is
> > actually useful.
>
> The problem I'm running into right now is pseudo. FreeBSD uses a
> different API for extended attributes, so all the various xattr_...
> things don't work. I might need to make it depend on a port of the
> xattr wrappers.
>
> Outside of that, I've been using a FreeBSD hosted cross toolchain for
> embedded Linux for years. It works well on its own. Hopefully the
> build-* overrides will be helpful for the small differences I've
> noticed.
>
> >
> > Ross
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Christopher Larson
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Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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