On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 08:46 -0700, Khem Raj wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Richard Purdie <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been aware that Poky and OE have been diverging slightly and I'd > > like to correct this. There are some patches that I've promised for a > > while too such as the rename from do_populate_staging -> > > do_populate_sysroot. > > > > With some help from Joshua Lock, I have a branch I'd like to propose be > > merged into OE.dev: > > > > http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/log/?h=rpurdie/work-in-progress > > > > This branch: > > > > * Renames do_populate_staging -> do_populate_sysroot as per previous > > staging discussion emails and also the staging directory -> > > sysroots. It should convert existing builds safely and insert a > > compatibility symlink. This continues the process of improving our > > "staging" concept into one focused around true sysroots. > > * Adds some gettext class sanity checks. In Poky this error is fatal, > > for OE this is just a note for now. The idea being if AM_GNU_GETTEXT > > is in configure.ac and gettext in some form isn't in DEPENDS, > > something is wrong. > > * Added relocatable binary processing from Poky for -native binaries > > using chrpath. This isn't enabled for -cross packages due to the > > relative path length problems. > > * Added packaged-staging fetching capabilities. This uses new mirror > > handling abilities in bitbake master branch but should work with older > > bitbakes, just with less functionality. > > * Started moving gcc dependency information into core gcc version > > specific includes as part of the gcc cleanup. > > * Converted gcc to use the new style staging > > * Added EXTRA_OECONF_INITIAL and EXTRA_OECONF_INTERMEDIATE variables to > > gcc as part of the gcc cleanup > > * Converted binutils, modutils-cross, glibc and gdb to new style staging > > * Cleaned up the gcc-cross do_install function a lot > > > > Along with a small number of other tweaks spotted along the way. > > > > I could post the patches individually and get Acked lines for each one > > but I'm hoping to avoid that and get permission to merge the branch > > directly. We have talked about most of these things in one form or > > another. > > > > Looks good stuff. > I would have preferred to have eglibc also converted to new style > staging if possible but can be done afterwards too.
I just looked and the eglibc do_stage function can most likely just be deleted and for the -initial version, rename do_stage to do_install and drop the empty do_install. I didn't make that change as its not something I've tested. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
