[poky] Using prebuilt toolchains

[Tian, Kevin]

>From: Gary Thomas
>Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:07 AM
>
>On 10/27/2010 03:58 PM, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
>> Hi Gary,
>>   The tool chain is customized to work well for all the recipes. If you are going to build
>just one package a separate tool chain may work, but it's unlikely that a separate toolchain
>will work well for all the recipes.
>>
>
>That's not really what I'm looking for.  What I want is to build
>the tools *once* and then reuse them, without having to rebuild
>them every time I start a Poky build from scratch.  I'm happy using
>the Poky "customized" tools, but I really dislike having to rebuild
>them over and over again...  I also am really keen to deliver a Poky
>setup to my customers which they can use to build their target systems.
>They shouldn't have to be bothered with building the tools themselves.

That's a reasonable requirement, but to be honest I haven't tried it.

So have you ever succeeded with previous release? If yes and it's broken with current master,
you can report a bug. 

On the other hand, I think the new checksum and task based prebuilt can serve similar 
purpose for you... or even more since your users should be happier if you could provide more
prebuilt stuff to them besides just toolchain. This is the merit of this project, to have end
user really focusing on their own customization and value-added bits. :-)

Thanks
Kevin

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: poky-bounces at pokylinux.org [mailto:poky-bounces at pokylinux.org] On Behalf Of
>Gary Thomas
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 2:33 PM
>> To: Poky
>> Subject: [poky] Using prebuilt toolchains
>>
>> Congratulations on Laverne (4.0) and Yocto - I hope they are
>> prosperous for all :-)
>>
>> Is there any way to configure Poky (laverne) with a prebuilt
>> toolchain, e.g. a meta-toolchain setup?  I no longer see any
>> mention of this in the manual (although I've never succeeded
>> to use such, no matter how hard I've tried)
>>
>
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