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

[Martyn Welch]

Tom Rini 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.
"target"?

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