how to add a "-dev" package to host SDK?

From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: OE Core mailing list <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: how to add a "-dev" package to host SDK?
Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 10:54:53 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14306152-1445-7a44-523-beb73a6dbda@crashcourse.ca> (raw)

  colleague asks a simple question (and i'm not in front of my dev box
at the moment so i can't verify what i'm about to suggest): how to add
the header files in a given "-dev" package to the host component of
the SDK?

  i haven't spent a lot of time messing with SDKs (that is about to
change), but as i read it, if one wants to add the contents of any
given development package to the host SDK, it would look like:

  TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK_append = " nativesdk-fubar-dev"

  i have no idea what the rationale is here, i'm just trying to
address the question, which in addition asks, "if you add something
like that to the host side, is it automatically added to the target
side?"

  i'm pretty sure it isn't, but i can check that after i log in. i
have no idea what they're up to here, i just want to answer the
question.

rday