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

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
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> On 25-07-10 21:43, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 17:10 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>>> And cacao:
>>>>>
>>>>> | configure: error: armv7a systems are not supported at this time
>>>>> | ERROR: Function do_configure failed
>>>>>
>>>>>> yes I was expecting that kind of problems. openssl also has similar issues.
>>>>>
>>>>>> another idea that struck me was that we could change the target triplet to drop
>>>>>> TARGET_VENDOR and replace it with TARGET_SUB_ARCH and TARGET_SUBARCH
>>>>>> could be anything
>>>>>> we could even make it same as MACHINE_ARCH which means you will build
>>>>>> toolchain per machine
>>>>>> and they will live together.
>>>>>
>>>>>> then the tool names will be something like arm-v7-linux-gnueabi-*
>>>>>> powerpc-e500-linux-gnu
>>>>>> mips-mips2-linux etc. instead of *-angstrom-*- or *-oe-*-
>>>>>
>>>>>> or arm-beagleboad-linux-gnueabi-* etc if we go with MACHINE_ARCH
>>>>>
>>>>>> that would keep all recipe configury happy as the arch detected from
>>>>>> config.guess will be what
>>>>>> we had (arm, mips, mipsel powerpc etc) so no changes needed but we
>>>>>> will have to drop the brand
>>>>>
>>>>>> does it sound good ? bad?
>>>>
>>>> I don't think abusing target vendor for that is a good idea. And I'm
>>>> quite attached to my angstrom branded toolchains, tbh.
>>>
>>> Note that you can still append your angstrom string to the vendor part
>>> of the triplet...
>>
>> arm-v7_angstrom-linux-gnueabi-  etc. is a possibility
>
> that would work for me :)

OK, I have a local patch here to append brand to vendor string in triplet.
I will post it tomorrow morning if it builds my different images.
I think now after these changes triplets will be distinct and we don't
need MULTIMACH* or am I mistaken?

Thanks
-Khem

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