[oe] Ideas for scripts, to save work, when building several boards

[Koen Kooi]

On 13-08-09 14:18, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> Koen Kooi skrev:
>> On 13-08-09 12:07, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>>> Koen Kooi skrev:
>>>> On 13-08-09 09:13, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>>>>> Since I will need to test multiple boards,
>>>>> I decided to write some scripts which I will
>>>>> check in later today in origin/ulf/linux-2.6.30.2
>>>>>
>>>>> I generated a "MAKEALL" script which will
>>>>> source a file "board_list.sh" with board build commands
>>>>>
>>>>> <SOF>
>>>>> build_board    sam9263dfc    x11-gpe-image
>>>>> build_board    sam9g45ek    opie-image
>>>>> build_board    sam9g10df    x11-gpe-image
>>>>> build_board    sam9g20dfc    console-image
>>>>> build_board    sam9260dfc    console-image
>>>>> build_board    sam9261df    x11-image
>>>>> build_board    sam9xedfc    console-image
>>>>> <EOF>
>>>>
>>>> You do know that you can do that with MACHINE=foo bitbake bar, right?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Didn't try that.
>>> I assume this means that the cross compiler is not rebuilt,
>>
>> Unless you poked at the gcc recipes, no, it won't get rebuilt.
>>
>>> Is the root fs assembled from ipks then?
>>
>> if you use rootfs_ipk.bbclass, yes.
>>
>> Note that the official angstrom buildguide has mentioned that for years:
>> http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom
>>
>
> I guess I can create a separate
> "build/conf/<machine>.conf" per machine and link
> "build/conf/local.conf" to this file.
>
> if  "MACHINE=<machine>  bitbake<whatever>" does not work

It does the exact same thing here, except that the angstrom method skips 
the 10 minute reparse and only parses things that got changed in between.
This is how the angstrom autobuilder works and it hasn't shown any 
problems in the method, it only highlighted broken zrecipes (e.g. 
zaurus-updater).

regards,

Koen