[yocto] Difference between target, cross, native and nativesdk.

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Dominic Sacré <dominic.sacre at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2015-01-21 14:37, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> The fw tools inside of U-Boot qualifies for both target and cross use
>> cases. When used in cross or crosssdk, it can be used to change things
>> in the generated image (sdcard for example) while in the target case
>> it can be used in the runtime system.
>
> I've been wondering about the "u-boot-fw-utils-cross" recipe myself.
> When I build the recipe I get what appear to be the correct binaries for
> the host architecture, located in the target-specific work directory
> (e.g. tmp/work/imx6qsabresd-poky-linux-gnueabi/u-boot-fw-utils-cross).
> However, these binaries don't get installed anywhere other recipes (like
> my sdcard image) would be able to find them.
>
> My workaround so far has been to build a native package instead (by
> simply adding BBCLASSEXTEND = "native" to the regular "u-boot-fw-utils"
> recipe).
> This way the binaries get installed to the host's sysroot and are found
> just fine, but I feel like I'm missing something about how the cross
> recipe should be used properly for this purpose.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this?

I sent a patch and seems to do the right thing. Can you test it?

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