[oe] [PATCH 0/4][RFC] Remove CROSS_DIR, install cross-packages into native sysroot

[Esben Haabendal]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 10:11 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> It's all 'arm-angstrom-foo', I was just about to make the suggestion to
>> change it to 'armv7a-angstrom-foo' :)
>
> I've just been talking to Koen about this. When building for armv7a,
> TARGET_ARCH which goes into TARGET_PREFIX and TARGET_SYS is "arm".
>
> I suspect if we change TARGET_ARCH to be armv7a, nasty things will
> happen but I could be wrong.

config.sub will generally not accept something like armv7a-*

If OE had not offered the vendor part of the arch strings to distros,
it could have
been solved by (in this case) using arm-v7a-foo ...

/Esben