[oe] [PATCH] Add a waf bitbake class. (Koen Kooi)
Tom Rini
tom_rini at mentor.com
Mon Jun 21 20:58:28 UTC 2010
Tom Rini wrote:
> 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 :)
And to be more clear, see is_legacy_staging in staging.bbclass
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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation
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