I think what I am going to do is document these in general as part of the "Terms" section in the YP Development Manual where the term "Cross-Development Toolchain" is defined. Would putting such a high-level list in the YP documentation be unnecessary or helpful?
Scott >-----Original Message----- >From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto- >boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hatle >Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 10:05 AM >To: yocto@yoctoproject.org >Subject: Re: [yocto] Difference of toolchain recipes > >On 12/6/12 4:00 AM, Luo Zhenhua-B19537 wrote: >> Can anybody shed some light, please? >> >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Zhenhua >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Luo Zhenhua-B19537 >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 11:53 AM >>> To: openembedded-c...@lists.openembedded.org; >'yocto@yoctoproject.org' >>> Subject: Difference of toolchain recipes >>> >>> It is a bit confused for the different recipes of toolchian, can >somebody >>> help to explain what's the difference for those recipes? E.g. gcc- >cross, >>> gcc-cross-canadian, gcc-cross-initial, gcc-cross-intermediate, gcc- >>> crosssdk, gcc-crosssdk-initial, gcc-crosssdk-intermediate, gcc- >runtime, >>> etc. > >gcc-cross-initial - This is the initial compiler needed to bootstrap the >toolchain to build software on the host for the target. (This is a >'native' >package.) > >gcc-cross-intermediate - This is the second stage of the bootstrap >process to >build software on the host for the target. (This is a 'native' package.) > >gcc-cross - this is the the final stage of the bootstrap process, and >results in >the cross compiler to build software on the host for the target. (This >is a >'native' package.) If you are replacing the cross compiler toolchain >with a >custom version, this is what you must replace. > >gcc-runtime - these are the runtime libraries, but from the toolchain >bootstrapping process. This results in a 'target' binary. > >gcc-crosssdk-initial/intermediate - stage 1 and 2 of the a cross >compiler to >build from the 'host' to the 'sdk'. Often the SDK is not the same >target as the >host. (This is a 'native' binary.) > >gcc-crosssdk - this the final stage of the SDK compiler. Again, this is >to >build on the host, for the sdk. This is a 'native' binary. > >gcc-cross-canadian - This is the compiler included with the SDK to build >on the >SDK machine creating software for the target. This is an 'nativesdk' >package. > >>> Is there any document for those description? > >Not that I know of.. It's one of those things that you kind of need to >know in >order to work with it. It likely should be documented somewhere >officially. > >--Mark > >>> >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> >>> Zhenhua >> >> _______________________________________________ >> yocto mailing list >> yocto@yoctoproject.org >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto >> > >_______________________________________________ >yocto mailing list >yocto@yoctoproject.org >https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
