[oe] [PATCH 0/3] Make multi-machine toolchains to co-exist.

[Khem Raj]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
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> On 25-07-10 10:32, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> On 24-07-10 23:25, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> On (24/07/10 22:51), Koen Kooi wrote:
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>>>> On 24-07-10 11:32, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> Following three patches are for making multi-machine toolchains co-exist with
>>>>> new cross staging for toolchain.
>>>>>
>>>>> It changes the toolchain triplet from TARGET_ARCH-VENDOR-OS to TARGET_SUB_ARCH-VENDOR-OS
>>>>>
>>>>> which means that a toolchain for armv7 is called armv7-oe-linux-gnueabi-*
>>>>> and for armv5te its called armv5te-oe-linux-gnueabi-*
>>>>>
>>>>> They can coexist in same native sysroot. The symlinks would mean that
>>>>> gcc will not accidently mix the assemblers or linkers.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have booted a minimal-image on qemuarm successfully. The build for
>>>>> beagleboard in same sysroot is underway.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please give it a shot in your environments (especially Koen's env)
>>>>
>>>> MACHINE=beagleboard bitbake nano ; MACHINE=hawkboard bitbake nano work,
>>>> going to try a bigger build now.
>>
>>> You will need 4th patch which is attached here, for the sdk recipes.
>>
>> OK, applied that as well, 'MACHINE=beagleboard bitbake console-image ;
>> MACHINE=hawkboard bitbake console-image' works as well.
>> Let's see what xbmc does :)
>
> xbmc builds, but mplayer and gstreamer-ti fail.
>
> The fix for mplayer is simple, change configure:2106 from
> arm|armv4t|armv5te) to arm*).
>
> The gstreamer-ti one is a bit harder to fix:
>
> | checking host system type... Invalid configuration
> `beagleboard-angstrom-linux-gnueabi': machine `beagleboard-angstrom' not
> recognized
> | configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub
> beagleboard-angstrom-linux-gnueabi failed
>
> That recipe is machine specific, so for TARGET_ARCH == MACHINE_ARCH we
> probably need to change things. Does anyone have a sample on how to do that?
>

Actually I have yet another patch which uses a new variable called
TARGET_SUB_ARCH
which fixes this issue. I am attaching this here.


> regards,
>
> Koen
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