Opened 11 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#924 closed task (wontfix)

Remove the need / desire to make a 'clfs' user

Reported by: Andrew Bradford Owned by: Andrew Bradford
Priority: minor Milestone: CLFS Embedded 1.0.0
Component: BOOK Version: CLFS Embedded GIT
Keywords: Cc:

Description

We should be able to modify the user's path such that the cross-tools get used when they should and the host's tools get used when they should. Other build tools like yocto/oe and buildroot do this without issue.

Removing the need to create a new user should make scripting a build less painful.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Andrew Bradford, 11 years ago

Owner: changed from clfs-commits@… to Andrew Bradford
Status: newassigned

comment:2 by Andrew Bradford, 9 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: assignedclosed

OE actually creates an entirely new system, kind of like the cross-tools in the main book, but even more extreme, and then throws away the user's environment to make a new one. If you want any of your env settings to carry over into this new env, you have to set which ones you want via BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE or similar mechanisms.

So trying to not have a separate user is likely going to be much much more difficult. Since we're manually making the build (unlike OE), just setting up a user who's configured to build correctly is probably the easiest way to do things.

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