4907 2013-07-25 07:10:53 +0000 Add an external sourcery chain example with documentation 2015-02-19 23:26:01 +0000 1 1 9 Documentation General Docs docs-general unspecified x86 Multiple RESOLVED FIXED 19 February 2015: RESOLVED Medium normal 1.8 1 lpapp kergoth bluelightning kergoth laurentiu.palcu ross.burton sgw srifenbark --- --- Done (doc changes complete) oldest_to_newest 34840 0 lpapp 2013-07-25 07:10:53 +0000 This is not available in the currently released documentation. Perhaps, it is available in the next, but even then, we would need a more thorough documentation, preferably with a concrete example. See, what the Linaro guys wrote up for reference: http://arago-project.org/wiki/index.php/Setting_Up_Build_Environment 34863 1 srifenbark 2013-07-25 09:05:45 +0000 Currently, this is what we have in the docs on toolchain use. What I need is an assessment of where in particular it is lacking to satisfy this bug. http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.5/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-TCMODE http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.5/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#cross-development-toolchain-generation http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.5/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#idp1628192 http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.5/adt-manual/adt-manual.html#using-an-existing-toolchain-tarball Thanks, Scott 34864 2 lpapp 2013-07-25 09:08:42 +0000 Can you show me a real world example, and not just plain documentation? 34867 3 srifenbark 2013-07-25 09:13:27 +0000 Yes - real-world examples are good and I can include one. Can you tell me though if the information that is currently there would allow a person to use an external toolchain? Knowing if that is true or not would help me better develop where to put an example. 34868 4 lpapp 2013-07-25 09:15:08 +0000 See bug 4908 which has been blocking my full-time job since yesterday. 38374 5 srifenbark 2013-10-31 17:37:17 +0000 Setting target for 1.6. 42504 6 lpapp 2014-04-10 09:35:58 +0000 Phew, I seem to have been frustrated here earlier. I sincerely apologize about that. I think the only issue that I see now is that the EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN variable is not documented in the "glossary". If that is added, that would satisfy me for now. Here is an example for the mentor graphics code sourcery toolchain: EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN = "/usr/local/arm-2009q1" It is basically setting the path to the toolchain root if I understand it correctly, but I may be wrong. 42510 7 bluelightning 2014-04-10 10:06:53 +0000 The tricky thing is the parts of this that matter (as in the parts that read EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN) are no longer in OE-Core. We could still document usage of meta-sourcery as an example of external toolchain usage, but it would need to be done in cooperation with the Mentor Graphics folks that maintain it and at this point in the release cycle it's 1.7 material. 42511 8 lpapp 2014-04-10 10:23:31 +0000 That is fine, Paul. 42523 9 srifenbark 2014-04-10 13:31:45 +0000 Hi, Based on the comments, I am pushing this one to 1.7. Also changing to ACCEPTED so the filters don't catch the bug for NEEDINFO. Thanks, Scott 43967 10 srifenbark 2014-06-16 07:09:13 +0000 Paul, What can be done now with this bug? Is it appropriate to document meta-sourcery as an example of external toolchain usage as you suggested? Does Mentor need to be consulted/worked with? Thanks, Scott 44376 11 srifenbark 2014-07-08 12:47:20 +0000 Setting the milestone to M3. I still need some guidance on this so when Paul gets back I can hopefully get that. Scott 45011 12 bluelightning 2014-08-07 15:05:22 +0000 So, I'm marking this as ACCEPTED rather than NEEDINFO since it is now assigned to me rather than Scott. 47240 13 bluelightning 2014-11-27 16:46:12 +0000 I feel like I'm actually not very well set up to write about external toolchain setup. Chris, can I ask you to take care of this? Scott just needs some raw background material for the manual, if you could send him something that would be great. 48345 14 kergoth 2015-01-28 00:27:58 +0000 Sorry for the delay on this. Scott, I think the readme over at https://github.com/MentorEmbedded/meta-sourcery should be current and covers the usage of the layer. I'll leave it to you as to whether to duplicate it or link to it. Essentially you add the layer to bblayers and set EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN = "/path/to/toolchain/install". 48836 15 srifenbark 2015-02-13 19:12:07 +0000 Hi, I have adjusted the documentation to address this situation. Please review the following areas: http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/adt-manual/adt-manual.html#optionally-using-an-external-toolchain http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-TCMODE thanks, Scott 48837 16 lpapp 2015-02-13 19:20:35 +0000 Thank you, Scott. 48838 17 kergoth 2015-02-13 20:21:06 +0000 Looks good. 48948 18 srifenbark 2015-02-19 23:26:01 +0000 Hi, Looks like we have approvals for this fix. I am marking the issue RESOLVED and setting the documentation flag to "done." Thanks, Scott