ref-manual: Updated the allarch class description.
Added a patch to include a note from Andre. Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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and a C library as pre-requisites, and splitting out of debug symbols
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during packaging).
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<note>
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Unlike e.g. Debian, OpenEmbedded recipes that produce packages
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which
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<para>Unlike some distro recipes (e.g. Debian), OpenEmbedded recipes
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that produce packages that depend on tunings through use of the
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<link linkend='var-RDEPENDS'><filename>RDEPENDS</filename></link>
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on
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and
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<link linkend='var-TUNE_PKGARCH'><filename>TUNE_PKGARCH</filename></link>
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packages should never be made <filename>allarch</filename>, even
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if they do not produce architecture-specific output. This would
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cause the do_package_write_* tasks to have different signatures
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for
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<link linkend='var-MACHINE'><filename>MACHINE</filename></link>s
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with different
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<link linkend='var-TUNE_PKGARCH'><filename>TUNE_PKGARCH</filename></link>,
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thus unnecessary rebuilds every single time an image for a different
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MACHINE is built (even without any change to the recipe).
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variables, should never be configured for all architectures
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using <filename>allarch</filename>.
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This is the case even if the recipes do not produce
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architecture-specific output.</para>
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<para>Configuring such recipes for all architectures causes the
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<link linkend='ref-tasks-package_write_deb'><filename>do_package_write_*</filename></link>
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tasks to have different signatures for the machines with different
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tunings.
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Additionally, unnecessary rebuilds occur every time an
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image for a different <filename>MACHINE</filename> is built
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even when the recipe never changes.</para>
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</note>
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</para>
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