[oe] what the use of toolchain-extras.tar.gz generated by bitbake meta-toolchain

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:21:42PM +0800, Guo Hongruan wrote:
> Hi guys,
>   Today, I am wondering what the use of toolchain-extra.tar.gz generated by 
> bitbake meta-toolchain*. When and How the application developers need it? 
> Is toolcain.tar.gz not enough?

>From meta-toolchain.bb, line #69:

        # extract and store ipks, pkgdata and shlibs data

The extras (and not extra) tarball provides pieces to easily use the generated 
toolchain within OE, instead of on its own. And external-toolchain(-generic).bb 
has hooks for using those pieces.

-- 
Denys