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

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 10:11 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
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>> On 23-07-10 10:02, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 09:25 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> >> There is a BIG problem with these patches, they break multimachine builds.
>> >>
>> >> The previous situation had:
>> >>
>> >> cross/armv7a-angstrom-foo/usr/bin/
>> >> cross/armv5te-angstrom-foo/usr/bin/
>> >> etc
>> >>
>> >> The new situation has:
>> >>
>> >> x86_64-linux/usr/bin
>> >>
>> >> So all the toolchains get dropped into the *same* directory, which
>> >> breaks horribly.
>> >
>> > Which are the actual binaries that collide?  I would have thought that
>> > everything which gets installed into the cross bindir ought to be
>> > prefixed with TARGET_SYS (i.e. usr/bin/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gcc, etc).
>>
>> 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.

I think it will be fine. I think this will be fine approach. If we think this
is the way I can throw in a patch quickly.

>
> If that doesn't help which I suspect it won't, my gut instinct is to add
> a architecture specific directory under bin for the cross bits. This
> could be as simple as changing bindir in cross.bbclass.
>
>> I don't know if that solves the binutils-cross problem[1], though.
>>
>> Koen
>>
>> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/34685
>
> Is that libiberty.a file actually useful or could we just stop
> binutils-cross installing it?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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