As certain distros--such as CentOS7--age, we are increasingly fighting for instance the ancient version of gcc on the host. As we look forward to a plan to create an LTS release, we need to have a mechanism to continue to build components 2+ years into the future. While this can be done with containers (YOCTO #13643), a less invasive approach is to extend the existing buildtools-tarball to also include gcc and other essential tools.
The current work-in-progress adds the nativesdk equivalent of build- essentials, but this has not been tested on the autobuilder yet and tools provided by binutils, such as ar and ld, do not appear to be properly symlinked in the resulting sdk. If your organization cares about CentOS7 support, please test and comment on this patch set. The patches can also be found at: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=timo/buildtools-13714 Tim Orling (2): nativesdk-buildtools-perl-dummy: add dependencies for autoconf and automake buildtools-extended-tarball: add recipe with build-essentials .../meta/buildtools-extended-tarball.bb | 32 +++++++++++++++++++ .../meta/nativesdk-buildtools-perl-dummy.bb | 3 ++ 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-extended-tarball.bb -- 2.20.1 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
