[oe] [PATCH] external-toolchain: Really accept toolchains built by meta-toolchain.bb

Chris Simmonds chris at 2net.co.uk
Mon Nov 23 19:24:18 UTC 2009


Chris Conroy wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 17:19 +0000, Chris Simmonds wrote:
>> meta-toolchain does generate environment-setup and so far as I am aware 
>> it works fine as a stand-alone toolchain. Is there some reason why I 
>> should not be using it as such?
>>
>> Chris S.
> 
> It's fine as just a standalone toolchain. It's just not a "Build
> Platform." Meaning, you can't just source it and get all the other
> things that OE gives you. This is perhaps too obvious to even warrant
> mentioning.
> 
> I misinterpreted the original patch since I was comparing against my
> local tree, where we've modified to check for environment-setup rather
> than package-status (simply as a sanity check for the setting of
> ${prefix}, so you can safely disregard my previous posting.
> 


Phew! Thanks for the clarification.
Chris S.




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