[oe] Build info in the spec file

[Muminul Russell]

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 3:38 PM Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2019-10-23 at 14:00 -0700, Muminul Russell wrote:
> > Hello Developers,
> >
> > Yocto can generate spec file for rpm packaging. But that spec file
> > does not have %build and %install macro. Is there any work done
> > already to include those 2 macros? Or could you give me hints how can
> > I do that?
>
> OE uses its own cross building process. You can't encode that cross
> building process into those macros. rpmbuild assumes native compiling.
> People have tried and concluded its really not practical.
>
> Think about the fact that even if you did have something there, the
> original process used to run the build would be different. That means
> two different code paths, one of which will probably end up with
> different results and hence be broken.
>
> So yes, I understand the desire but it really doesn't make sense.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>