[oe] Request for branch merge

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net> wrote:
> I've been aware that Poky and OE have been diverging slightly and I'd
> like to correct this. There are some patches that I've promised for a
> while too such as the rename from do_populate_staging ->
> do_populate_sysroot.
>
> With some help from Joshua Lock, I have a branch I'd like to propose be
> merged into OE.dev:
>
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/log/?h=rpurdie/work-in-progress
>
> This branch:
>
> * Renames do_populate_staging -> do_populate_sysroot as per previous
>  staging discussion emails and also the staging directory ->
>  sysroots. It should convert existing builds safely and insert a
>  compatibility symlink. This continues the process of improving our
>  "staging" concept into one focused around true sysroots.
> * Adds some gettext class sanity checks. In Poky this error is fatal,
>  for OE this is just a note for now. The idea being if AM_GNU_GETTEXT
>  is in configure.ac and gettext in some form isn't in DEPENDS,
>  something is wrong.
> * Added relocatable binary processing from Poky for -native binaries
>  using chrpath. This isn't enabled for -cross packages due to the
>  relative path length problems.
> * Added packaged-staging fetching capabilities. This uses new mirror
>  handling abilities in bitbake master branch but should work with older
>  bitbakes, just with less functionality.
> * Started moving gcc dependency information into core gcc version
>  specific includes as part of the gcc cleanup.
> * Converted gcc to use the new style staging
> * Added EXTRA_OECONF_INITIAL and EXTRA_OECONF_INTERMEDIATE variables to
>  gcc as part of the gcc cleanup
> * Converted binutils, modutils-cross, glibc and gdb to new style staging
> * Cleaned up the gcc-cross do_install function a lot
>
> Along with a small number of other tweaks spotted along the way.
>
> I could post the patches individually and get Acked lines for each one
> but I'm hoping to avoid that and get permission to merge the branch
> directly. We have talked about most of these things in one form or
> another.
>

Looks good stuff.
I would have preferred to have eglibc also converted to new style
staging if possible but can be done afterwards too.