[oe] [RFC] get rid of legacy staging

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/7/24 Detlef Vollmann <dv at vollmann.ch>

> On 07/24/10 16:35, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>
>> 2010/7/24 Martyn Welch <martyn at welchs.me.uk>
>>
>>  Can anyone point me to any documentation that describes what legacy
>>> staging
>>> is and roughly what needs to be done to remove it?
>>>
>>
>
>> There was a post half a year or so ago from Koen, but I can't find it.
>> Basically it boils down to removing do_stage from a recipe in which case
>> do_install is used to install things in staging
>> in some cases do_install need to be modified to deal with peculiarities
>> that
>> were done in do_stage
>>
>> For native recipes NATIVE_INSTALL_WORKS = "1" may need to be added.
>>
> That's not really much of an explanation.
> Let's take an example.  I have two out of tree kernel modules A and B.
> B depends on A.
> With "legacy" staging, in A_1.0.bb I have a do_install, that copies
> the kernel object, and a do_stage, that copies the header file at
> a place where B_1.0.bb can find it.
>
> How do I do that with non-"legacy" staging?
>

Apologies if my explanation was too brief. Didn't have too much time (and
still haven't)
I hope Koen's explanation below helps.
The way I perceive it is that the non-legacy staging is performed by doing a
do_install with the staging dir as target directory.
Guess someone will correct this if I am wrong.

Frans

>
>  Detlef
>
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