[yocto] ref manual, ch 5, claims that toolchain should be installed under /opt/poky

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:

> According to Jessica, there has been no change in the behavior of
> how the toolchain unpacks.  /opt/poky is still used.
>
> Scott
>
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> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Lu, Lianhao
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 6:47 PM
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> Subject: Re: [yocto] ref manual, ch 5, claims that toolchain should be installed under /opt/poky
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>
> Robert P. J. Day wrote on 2012-03-26:
> >
> >   currently, ch 5 of the reference manual claims that a generated
> > "meta-toolchain" tarball should be unpacked under /opt/poky, which
> > might be *historically* correct but i just baked a meta-toolchain and
> > its tarball contents are all prefixed with "./usr/local/", which seems
> > inconsistent with that.
>
> Did you include the meta-yocto layer when you bake the
> meta-toolchain? "/opt/poky" is the default settings for the
> toolchain generated using meta-yocto layer, while oe-core uses
> "/usr/local". I don't know why your prefix is "./usr/local". The
> location of toolchain should be configurable by the value of
> variable SDKPATH, but we didn't test it with other values in the
> context of meta-yocto layer.

  ah, i think i might have done this under oe-core, that would explain
it.

rday

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