On Mar 7, 2020, at 11:17, Richard Purdie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to mention that we now have the ability to wrap builds on > specific workers with specific buildtools tarballs. > > Currently this functionality is in master, we do have the option of > porting the helper code to other stable branches. > > We have had multiple issues, with the infrastucture internal url/cert > handling, git/cert environment issues, an issue with eSDK testing (next > has a fix in testing), the crypt fix already submitted (meaning M2's > tarball doesn't help) and so on, I'm hoping we've gotten to the bottom > of those. > > This does mean we could drop gcc 4.8/4.9 support if we wanted to and > rely on the tarball support for centos7/debian8. I'm torn on that, we > are still missing: > > a) Support for wrapping a build with buildtools more auotmatically > (like we do with uninative) > > b) documentation of buildtools-extended-tarball
This would be valuable to wrap older Haskell [1] and Ocaml [2] compilers, which are often challenging to support with newer versions of OE. I've tested buildtools-extended-tarball with an OpenXT build, but we would need to use an older tarball for the Haskell/Ocaml native compilers. Rich [1] https://github.com/OpenXT/meta-openxt-haskell-platform [2] https://github.com/OpenXT/meta-openxt-ocaml-platform
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