From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpanel8.indieserve.net (cpanel8.indieserve.net [199.212.143.3]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web10.1039.1620078031999088972 for ; Mon, 03 May 2021 14:40:32 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: crashcourse.ca, ip: 199.212.143.3, mailfrom: rpjday@crashcourse.ca) Received: from cpef81d0f814063-cmf81d0f814060.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([174.114.57.56]:47770 helo=fedora) by cpanel8.indieserve.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1ldgIo-0002So-LQ for docs@lists.yoctoproject.org; Mon, 03 May 2021 17:40:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 17:40:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" To: YP docs mailing list Subject: Re: sdk manual, how does one simply *use* a pre-built SDK? Message-ID: <50434d1c-369-8679-9a5-91c9d5acb77d@crashcourse.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel8.indieserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.yoctoproject.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cpanel8.indieserve.net: authenticated_id: rpjday+crashcourse.ca/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: cpanel8.indieserve.net: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII having perused the SDK manual and nitpicked here and there (and submitted some patches, hi, michael!), it's not clear to me how one simply *uses* a pre-built SDK to speed up subsequent builds of compatible projects. if i'm focused on building for a particular target, i recall from way back there was an option to identify an external toolchain to use to speed things. i'm *assuming* you can do the same by building, installing and sourcing an SDK, but the SDK manual doesn't seem to explain how to do something that basic. am i missing something? if i go to the trouble of building and installing a standard SDK, how can i use it to speed up subsequent builds? rday