[oe] Splitting meta-oe

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 25 January 2012 09:34:53 Philip Balister wrote:
> On 01/25/2012 07:48 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > I think what most people want when they enable meta-oe in their layer
> > configuration is #1, and it's probably OK to get #2 along with it. They do
> > not however expect versions of toolchains, eglibc or other fairly
> > fundamental bits and pieces that might cause their build to fail when
> > everything worked fine just building with OE-Core (#4). Equally I expect
> > there will be some people who want just #3 and nothing else.
> 
> My understanding is the OE-Core toolchains lack the Linaro patches which
> a extremely useful for people using armv7. So dropping toolchains from
> meta-oe would be a really bad thing for a large portion of the user base.

I was suggesting moving these toolchains to a separate layer where those who 
don't need them aren't tripping over them. Adding such a layer to your 
configuration is more or less trivial, and once done you would not notice any 
difference.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre