[oe] The truth about OE team being afraid of 'make' (was: Getting Started -Makefile)

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Mike (mwester) wrote:
> I ask the OE team why are they are philosophically opposed to driving
> bitbake with make?

Ok, seems now's a good time to tell you. Because that's where we came
from back in 2002 -- from a Makefile-centric buildroot called
OpenZaurus that didn't scale at all (which is inherent to the
buildroot approach).

We are so glad that by inventing OpenEmbedded and BitBake we have left
this stoneage of building distributions behind.

Getting back to the 'make' command reminds us of the painful past before we had
OE.

Then again, it could be just a paranoia of me, Chris Larson, and
Holger Schurig ;)

Regards,

:M:
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