[yocto] Need clarification on some terms

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

I need this clarified as well.  I am taking some "guesses" here and hoping for input.

Scott

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul D. DeRocco [mailto:pderocco at ix.netcom.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:51 PM
>To: 'Paul Eggleton'; Rifenbark, Scott M
>Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
>Subject: RE: [yocto] Need clarification on some terms
>
>> From: Paul Eggleton
>>
>> gcc-cross-intermediate is gone as of 1.3; as I understand it
>> current versions
>> of glibc can be compiled using gcc-cross-initial so the
>> intermediate step is
>> no longer required. We should remove mention of this from the
>> documentation
>> (other than in the migration section that is).
>
>Okay, so now there are two stages to each cross-compilation, so there's
>gcc-cross-initial producing gcc-cross, and also gcc-crosssdk-initial
>producing gcc-crosssdk. But is the difference between those two pairs
>that
>the first pair ultimately produces a cross-compiler that runs on the
>host,
>and the second pair ultimately produces a native compiler that runs on
>the
>target? From what I can gather about the various references to "SDK", it
>sounds like it's supposed to be a set of native tools that runs on the
>target and produces output for the target. If that's true, then the new
>descriptions are still wrong. Shouldn't gcc-cross be described as a
>"cross"
>package rather than a "native", and shouldn't gcc-crosssdk be described
>as a
>"native" binary that runs on the target? Or am I still fundamentally
>misinterpreting these things?
>
>For now, I really just need to know if I'm interested in the SDK, since
>I
>have no intention of ever running compilations on my target system.
>
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>
>Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
>Paul                mailto:pderocco at ix.netcom.com