Re: [PATCH] install crossbuild-essential into base schroot

[Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>]

03.08.2022 19:44, Felix Moessbauer wrote:
> This patch always installs the crossbuild-essential-<distro>
> package into the lower dir of the host sbuild schroot.
>
> This avoids having to install this package in the upper-dir
> when cross-compiling, and is identical to build-essential when natively
> compiling.
> By that, the parallel cross-build of packages is significantly faster.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Moessbauer <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>
> ---
>   meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb | 5 +++++
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb
> index aa82846b..f7c7d11b 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb
> @@ -9,5 +9,10 @@ SBUILD_VARIANT = "host"
>   
>   require sbuild-chroot.inc
>   
> +# always add the crossbuild-essentials package which is
> +# a noop for the host distro, but significantly reduces
> +# the download + install time when cross-compiling
> +SBUILD_CHROOT_PREINSTALL_COMMON += "crossbuild-essential-${DISTRO_ARCH}"
> +
>   ROOTFS_ARCH = "${HOST_ARCH}"
>   ROOTFS_DISTRO = "${HOST_DISTRO}"

This will probably not work on riscv64 and any other targets with self-build
crossbuild-essential.