[poky] Using prebuilt toolchains

[Tian, Kevin]

>From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com]
>Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:34 PM
>
>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.

that's reasonable, as people want the full control of the given bits. Actually this is one
major reason why people go to open source side. :-)

>
>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.

well, please report any issues you encountered with it, and we'll work together to make
this fancy feature dancing well.

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

it's always good to see such mails from you. :-)

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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