[yocto] esdk without using Poky?

[Gary Thomas]

On 2017-01-04 13:54, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 12:05 +0100, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2016-11-04 04:41, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>> On Wed, 02 Nov 2016 07:25:13 Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> I've tested your patches for this (from the OE-core mailing list)
>>>> and I can now build and use the eSDK for my board :-)
>>>
>>> Great!
>>>
>>>> I do have a couple observations/questions:
>>>>
>>>> * I added my missing tool with this line in my local.conf
>>>>       TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK_append = " nativesdk-ti-cgt-pru"
>>>>    Why did this cause many of the nativesdk tools to have to be rebuilt?
>>>
>>> So just FYI this will only work for the standard SDK, it's not the right way
>>> to add these tools for the eSDK - in fact it may break the eSDK due to
>>> bringing things into the native sysroot that shouldn't be there.
>>>
>>> At the moment I think the only way to properly add this to the eSDK is to do
>>> this:
>>>
>>> SDK_TARGETS += "ti-cgt-pru-native:do_populate_sysroot"
>>>
>>> We don't document this, and it's a little awkward in any case. I'll work on
>>> it.
>>
>> This was working great for me until I just upgraded to the latest [poky]
>> master (rev dbb247cac5fbf7b037e4955f9793828451723924).  With the SDK_TARGETS
>> line in my local.conf, I get this error:
>>
>> ERROR: Error for /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-rainier-am335x-p8701/packages/images/magicard-demo-image_1.0.bb,
>> dependency ti-cgt-pru-native:do_populate_sysroot:do_populate_sysroot
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>>  does not contain exactly one ':' character.
>>   Task 'rdepends' should be specified in the form 'packagename:task'
>>
>> Any ideas what changed and how I get it working again?
>
> I enhanced the error checking, and the rdepends varflag in your example
> indeed isn't valid. ":do_populate_sysroot" got appended twice to the
> recipe name. That error got ignored silently earlier.
>
> populate_sdk_ext.bbclass appends ":do_populate_sysroot" when setting
> do_sdk_depends[rdepends], so you should use just:
>
>    SDK_TARGETS += "ti-cgt-pru-native"
>

Thanks that worked - at least I can build, I haven't checked the esdk yet.

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