On 25 March 2017 at 17:34, Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerst...@axis.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org > > [mailto:openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of > > Richard Purdie > > Sent: den 25 mars 2017 11:27 > > To: Peter Kjellerstedt; Andre McCurdy; OE Core mailing list > > Subject: Re: [OE-core] Using MACHINE_FEATURES in a native recipe > > > > On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 15:10 +0000, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote: > > > Even though I agree this is a good change and that it should be done, > > > I wonder if we can either hold it off until after Pyro has been > > > released or make it possible to avoid it? The reason for this is that > > > I know that this change will require a huge amount of development > > > work for us, something that will not be possible to do in the time > > > frame left until Pyro is released. Or alternatively we will have to > > > copy native.bbclass to our layers and maintain a fork of it, which > > > sucks... > > > > > > The reason for this is that our unit test framework is based on > > > building all our own packages as native, but still configured via, > > > amongst others, MACHINE_FEATURES as if building for the real target. > > > This will of course not work anymore if MACHINE_FEATURES is set to "" > > > with no way of overriding it. > > > > I'm afraid I only saw this after I merged it :( > > No worries. I'll backport native.bbclass to our layers for now. > > > I appreciate its a pain but I do think the change is the right thing to > > do (maybe with a corresponding DISTRO_FEATURES one too). Hopefully we > > can find a way that lets you work around it somehow... > > I agree that cleaning MACHINE_FEATURES is the right thing to do. However, > I am not so sure about DISTRO_FEATURES. After all, the native tools are > part of the distro as well and there may be reasons to build them > differently based on enabled features in the distro. > It's possible but I've not found a single reason yet... If someone has a hunch about a distro feature actually affecting a native tool, please mention in https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11239 Jussi
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