[oe] How to build g++ to run on target?

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 16:53 -0800, Philip Balister wrote:
>>
>> On 02/23/2010 03:09 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Philip Balister<philip at balister.org>  wrote:
>> >> On 02/23/2010 05:51 AM, Jay Snyder wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I was able to build gcc for installation directly onto the OE target
>> >>> with "bitbake gcc". "bitbake g++" gives me "nothing provides g++".
>> >>>
>> >>> What is the magic bitbake command to provide this?
>> >>
>> >> bitbake task-sdk-native, and install task-native-sdk. Anyone know why the
>> >> task creates a package with different name?
>> >
>> > may be because
>> >
>> > task-sdk-native.bb:RPROVIDES_${PN} = "task-native-sdk"
>>
>> I know that :) I am curious why the renaming.
>
> And if perhaps we couldn't get a different name altogether?  'native'
> has a meaning normally that's not what it means here.
> task-on-device-sdk is a bit wordy, but avoids 'native'.  Of course,
> 'native development' also has a meaning too.. RPROVIDES perhaps?  Or is
> that just the worst of both worlds..

yeah thats a good point. although native is not as bad but in context
of OE we already
assigned native to something that this task does not do. So using something like
what you suggest or task-target-sdk would be nice.

to answer the original question I think RDEPEND was added for fixing
upgrade channels on existing systems.

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