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Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> schrieb am So., 5. Juli 2020,
23:27:

>
> Quoting Richard Purdie <[email protected]>:
>
> > On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 15:24 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> Quoting Ross Burton <[email protected]>:
> >>
> >> > On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 11:50, Robert P. J. Day
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > >    however, one can also generate a standard SDK with the generic
> >> > > (image-independent):
> >> > >
> >> > >    $ bitbake meta-toolchain
> >> > >
> >> > > which clearly does not identify an image (all that recipe does,
> >> > > really, is "inherit populate_sdk"), so i *guessed* that using that
> >> > > command will generate a standard SDK based only on what can be found
> >> > > in the various .conf files and associated variables (MACHINE,
> DISTRO,
> >> > > etc.) without being tied to a particular image.
> >> > >
> >> > >    just about to dive into the details, but is the above at least a
> >> > > simplistic way of looking at it?
> >> >
> >> > At the most fundamental level, you've asked bitbake to build
> >> > 'meta-toolchain'.  Looking in meta-toolchain.bb will show you what
> >> > that entails.  It's basically just the compilers and a few other tools
> >> > that were added as needed over the years.
> >>
> >>    i'd assumed as much, but is there a reason that the meta-toolchain
> target
> >> is not mentioned at all in the SDK manual? Would that not be the right
> >> place to mention it, even briefly?
> >
> > meta-toolchain is really old, from the days before the populate_sdk
> > task for images existed. It was created as a compatibility artefact and
> > as an example to show you could do standalone SDKs like that without
> > images.
> >
> > I'd imagine its not mentioned as we envisaged the populate_sdk tasks
> > taking over from meta-toolchain. I'm not even sure we test meta-
> > toolchain on the autobuilder. It probably continues to work as its so
> > similar to buildtools-tarball and friends.
> >
> > Should it be mentioned? Maybe...
>
>    that actually clears things up. i'll let others higher up the food chain
> decide if the meta-toolchain target should be documented, or if it's
> entirely superseded by the populate_sdk tasks.
>

I actually can see more use cases coming up due to the increasing interest
in building bare metal targets. My vote would be on documenting, and
preferably also testing.

Greetz


>
> rday
>
> 
>
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