[yocto] Image lacks libraries needed by SDK

[Anders Darander]

* Maxin B. John <maxin.john at intel.com> [170614 10:24]:

> Hi Paul,

> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 04:24:38PM -0700, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> > In order to try out the much more recent compiler in the Yocto SDK (and to
> > prepare for converting to a different architecture in the future), I built
> > a standard SDK by using do_populate_sdk on my image. I managed to modify
> > my project to use the toolchain and libraries in the sysroot in the SDK,
> > and it successfully produces an executable. But when I copy this into my
> > system, it barfs because there is no libstdc++.o (and perhaps other
> > libraries) on my system. And there is no libstdc++.a in the SDK.

> Had a similar experience with respect to the availability of static libraries
> in the SDK.

> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5347

> One way to fix this will be to include required static libraries in the image
> before building SDK - eg: for glibc static development libraries:

> IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " glibc-staticdev"

Why install it to the image? 

TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK_append = " glibc-staticdev"

would be better, as it'll only add this package to the SDK.

Cheers,
Anders

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Anders Darander, Senior System Architect
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB