[poky] Using prebuilt toolchains

[Gary Thomas]

On 10/27/2010 08:35 PM, Ke, Liping wrote:
> Hi, Gary
>
> Seems I misunderstand something. Seems what you want is about how to
> create a recipe which could reuse you pre-build images and save build
> time.
>
> But anyway, for normal application developers, providing an easy-to-use
> sdk-toolchain tarball is helpful. In theory, they have no needs to build
> the whole poky system by themselves.

Sadly, that's what they insist on :-(

Mostly my customers want to be able to [re]build exactly what's in their
embedded environment, typically from scratch.  Poky does this great, but
the overhead of rebuilding the toolchain is a huge portion of the effort.

As for Kevin's comment:
>
> 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. :-)
>

This would be great and I've been working with Richard on it for a long time.
Sadly, it still doesn't work correctly and provides no benefit in its current
state.

... I keep using Poky (at the very bleeding edge) and hoping :-)

>>>> -----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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