On Wednesday 16 April 2014 at 10:49:48 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 April 2014 10:31:36 Mike Crowe wrote:
> > TARGET_LDFLAGS is currently defined in bitbake.conf to contain
> > ${TARGET_LINK_HASH_STYLE} which differs between MIPS and other
> > targets. Since TARGET_LDFLAGS is an exported variable it affects the hash
> > of every shell task even if it is not used.
> >
> > We don't want native recipe tasks to have different hashes purely because
> > they happen to have been built in order to satisfy dependencies for
> > different MACHINEs since this causes lots of churn in the native sysroot
> > when switching between MACHINEs.
> >
> > Making native.bbclass override TARGET_LDFLAGS to use BUILD_LDFLAGS ensures
> > consistent hashes and is a sensible thing to be doing anyway.
>
> Just to be clear, for a native recipe how is TARGET_LDFLAGS entering the
> signatures? AIUI there ought to be indirection such that LDFLAGS is used and
> that is set from BUILD_LDFLAGS for a native recipe rather than
> TARGET_LDFLAGS.
Because TARGET_LDFLAGS is an exported variable. LDFLAGS is set from
TARGET_LDFLAGS but (prior to this patch) only LDFLAGS is set to
BUILD_LDFLAGS; TARGET_LDFLAGS remains unchanged.
See thread "export TARGET_LDFLAGS and native sstate"
<20140407155333.ga19...@mcrowe.com> .
Should I improve the commit message?
Thanks.
Mike.
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