Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > >---2 "building with a cross-compiler is wrong,
I think one big problem is that, while OE is a meta-distribution, many people seem to think of it as build system, i.e., "make" becomes "bitbake". All the overhead of OE probably makes perfect sense for a distribution maker who can devote major resources into the care and feeding of OE, but for more casual users, it's a nightmare. So I think the first step to reduce the number of complaints would be to make sure people write their code such that it can compile and even cross-compile without OE. BTW, I consider autotools an abomination as well. They solve a problem that has started to vanished more than a decade ago, namely wildly diverging programming environments, but have now grown so complex and fragile that it's now often them who create the problems in otherwise trivial builds. - Werner
