[OpenWrt-Devel] SDK vs. Toolchain+

[Daniel Dickinson]

On 05/01/16 11:22 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> On 05/01/16 10:49 AM, Joris de Vries wrote:
>>
>>> On 05 Jan 2016, at 16:04, Daniel Dickinson
>>> <openwrt at daniel.thecshore.com <mailto:openwrt at daniel.thecshore.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> am of two minds about how to deal with the issue that having to build
>>> the toolchain for an SDK before being able use the SDK is rather
>>> painful (or at least it tests my patience; don't know about other
>>> people).
>> To be honest, it is more of a one-time time cost than a continuous cost.
>> That is, I don't typically rebuilt the entire toolchain on every
>> compile. Perhaps some of your frustration can be alleviated by using a
>> slightly different workflow?
>
> The problem is that I find, at least with ar71xx, that even with a an
> already compile toolchain that target/linux/compile takes an annoying
> amount of time (even though nothing is being compiled, there is a lot of
> stuff that still gets done), and,
>
> in addition, target/linux/install takes a very long time because there
> are preparations for every image, even if you only want two or three
> profiles (but the two or three means you can't just select one profile
> and be happy), because you have multiple types of hardware you want to
> deal with.
>
> It's actually target/linux that's the major issue when it comes to
> allowing not rebuilding every time to be a useful answer.

This does, however, tell me a better way to focus my energy than the SDK 
stuff I was doing; improving target/linux situation combined with a 
sourceful SDK would I think be a positive solution.

Regards,

Daniel
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