[oe] [PATCH] Add a waf bitbake class. (Koen Kooi)
Tom Rini
tom_rini at mentor.com
Mon Jun 21 20:39:51 UTC 2010
Sean_Hudson at Dell.com wrote:
> On 18-06-10 21:58, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> ------------------------------
>> On 18-06-10 21:58, Sean_Hudson at Dell.com wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We are using waf for some of our modules and decided to add a class to make it easier to write recipes.
>> Why is there still a staging method in there? Those have been deprecated
>> for months now.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to reply. To answer your question, the waf class was cloned from the autotools.bbclass, so the staging stuff came from there. Is there a better way to handle the staging?
>
> It's a fairly trivial class, but I'm interested to hear if anyone had any additional thoughts on ways to improve the class?
Koen's point is that for a long time now do_stage has been set as legacy
and 'do_install' should instead set things up such that a package can
then be installed into the sysroots/ directory and reused. Like
autotools.bbclass does today :)
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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation
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