[yocto] how does one use a prebuilt toolchain from the toolchain/ directory?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Gary Thomas wrote:

> Use SSTATE_MIRRORS to point at the sstate-cache of the first build.
> This will let bitbake reuse as much as possible, including the toolchain.
>
> I do exactly as you are proposing above and my builds for the "secondary"
> targets can be as little as a couple of minutes (from scratch).

  what's strange is that there's a whole yocto wiki page devoted to
build performance issues:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Build_Performance

which says nothing about this.

rday

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