[yocto] Collaboration on Testing GCC/LLVM Toolchains

[Ross Burton]

On 14/11/2019 18:05, Nicholas Krause wrote:
>> I think its a good idea. Currently, we test released versions mostly,
>> however, there is
>> a class to switch to git versions and primarily be able to use tip of
>> master for a given
>> recipe, this would be something I wish we had but so far we have not
>> fully completed it
>> I know Ross had started this work and created initial skeleton, So
>> step one would be to
>> complete that class so we can easily switch recipes to use dev
>> versions of packages
>> this will go beyond GCC but certainly will be a tremendous achievement.
> 
> Does Ross have a copy of the skeleton or someone else as I would
> 
> like to take a look at it. Don't think I will be much help writing it as
> 
> I'm not too familiar with bitbake recipes or classes themselves.
Fixing devupstream.bbclass (already integrated into oe-core) to also 
extend native recipes is a non-trivial engineering effort sadly.

Ross