[oe] Native/Cross/SDK rethink (Was: Re: RFC: "Virtual" native and sdk recipes)

Esben Haabendal esbenhaabendal at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 20:51:23 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:

>> I'm sorry, but this seems like a dangerous way of starting confusion of terms.
>> MACHINE in how I see OE is really the _TARGET_, ie. the small device this all
>> is targeted at.
>
> MACHINE is where the generated stuff will _run_ on, so MACHINE=x86
> SDKTARGET=armv5te would be more in line with what OE expects, but I agree it
> can be confusing if you are thinking in autotools terms.

Exactly. Let's stick with the solution that applys best to the golden
"Rule of Least Surprise",
which I believe in the case of the average OE user would be as Koen suggests.

/Esben




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