[oe] Does it possible to use pre-built native tools

[Chris Larson]

You'd likely be better off looking into the use of packaged staging packages
than using ASSUME_PROVIDED.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Guo Hongruan <camelguo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi frans,
>  In fact, I need to build completely different images for different
> architecture in different tmp directories. We need to do nightly build on
> build machine. So I think it would be better for several builds using the
> same one native tools set. It does not need to build native tools from zero
> on every time.
>
>
>
> 在 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:06:27 +0800，Frans Meulenbroeks <
> fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> 写道:
>
>
>  2009/12/8 Guo Hongruan <camelguo at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi Koen,
>>>  Thanks for your information.
>>>  I think it will save my time. Consider I have to build several platforms
>>> for different architecture, in fact the native tools is architecture
>>> independent. So I think it is more reasonable to avoid building native
>>> tools
>>> for other platforms. Is there anything wrong with me.
>>>
>>
>> If you build different machines in the same tmp dir the system will
>> normally not rebuild native packages.
>> Also if it is the same architecture you won't get a new compiler (e.g.
>> if you have two armv5 systems).
>> Thinking of it, not sure what would happen if one version would insist
>> on using an older version of gcc
>>
>> Frans
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  I tried to use ASSUME_PROVIDED to avoid compiling some native tools, but
>>> it seems that there are some building failure. I am trying to figure them
>>> out.
>>>
>>> 在 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:07:25 +0800，Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>
>>> 写道:
>>>
>>>  On 08-12-09 08:55, Guo Hongruan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>> I want to configure openembedded to use the pre-built native tools.
>>>>> e.g: qemu-native, quilt-native when building the whole image, so that
>>>>> the
>>>>> building can save lots of time. Is there anyone know how to achieve it?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It won't save you any time, since every tool OE builds for it self is
>>>> built for a reason. If you think a 10 minute buildtime improvement
>>>> outweighs
>>>> a month more of bughunting then look into ASSUME_PROVIDED.
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>>
>>>> Koen
>>>>
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