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  • Adjust the hardcoded licenses based on version, for now. Better would be if the external toolchain provided license data.
  • Handle relocating debug files based on PACKAGE_DEBUG_SPLIT_STYLE, in a general way, as a better way to handle 6d62e6f. Possibly do a regex search/replace:

    If debug-file-directory:
    
        (.*)/\.debug/([^/]*)\.debug|${libdir}/debug/\1/\2.debug
        (.*)/\.debug/([^/]*)|${libdir}/debug/\1/\2.debug
    
    Else:
    
        ${libdir}/debug/(.*)/([^/]*\.debug)|\1/.debug/\2
    
  • Fix extraction of patterns like ${libdir}/locale/*/*/libc.mo (glibc) and ${libdir}/gcc/*/*/include/omp.h (libgomp).

  • Improvements above and beyond the existing previous features of the layer

    • Attempt to determine the available locales for locale generation/packaging dynamically based on what’s available in the sysroot.
    • Don’t use cp -a (we don’t want the permissions/ownership from the external toolchain to leak onto our target)
    • Think about using cpio instead of cp
    • Think about hard linking if possible instead of copying, as long as do_package doesn’t modify files in place, rather than unlinking/creating.

    • Improve separation between sourcery and general external bits

    • Refactor and enhance to be able to use this sysroot extraction code to be able to support a true native MACHINE, bypassing cross-compilation entirely.

    • Re-examine oe-core metadata for our extraction recipes to see if anything can be reused (e.g. in libgcc, gcc-runtime)

    • Re-review the Wind River toolchain layers for useful bits

    • Add hooks to be able to handle multilib configurations stored in cpio archives rather than directly on disk. This will include:

      • a hook for the search process so we can examine the contents of the archives instead of on-disk
      • a hook for the copy process so we can extract instead of copying
    • Add minimum gcc version requirement (>=4.3) due to requirement for -print-sysroot/–sysroot=.

    • Test minimum gcc/glibc versions to actually complete a build.

    • Consider reworking external_toolchain_do_install in shell. This would need performance testing.

    • Consider reverting the split out of linux-libc-headers-external, as we don’t want to encourage folks to provide their own – there are better mechanisms.

  • Bugs

    • 2013.11: problems with cross-localedef for bo_CN, et_VE, ar_SD, az_AZ, bo_IN