RE: [Ltib] once per host side tools

[Newell, James C.]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stuart Hughes [mailto:address@hidden
>Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:26 AM
>To: Newell, James C.
>Cc: address@hidden
>Subject: RE: [Ltib] once per host side tools
>
>Hi James,
>
>Welcome to the list.  No, don't touch that file.

Thank You Stuart.  

>
>What happens is the first time you run an instance it will build/install
>any host support packages that are not already there (or at the right
>version).  So the very first instance will take quite a long time as it
>has to build/install a lot.  The next instance should however get
>through the host install phase very quickly (you can check what it did
>in host_config.log)
>

So, it appears that host work is done in /opt/freescale/ltib/usr/src/rpm/.  I 
assume it's not good to have two separate instances of tlib building the host 
side tools at the same time then?

Regards,
Jim

>Regards, Stuart
>
>On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 22:29 -0400, Newell, James C. wrote:
>> It appears from the ltib perl script,  if I touch this file in the top
>> directory .host_wait_warning16 it will skip rebuilding the host side
>> tools.  Is this is the proper way to skip this step?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>> From:address@hidden
>> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf
>> Of Newell, James C.
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:22 PM
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: [Ltib] once per host side tools
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am new to ltib.  I have question about the below ‘once per host ‘
>> comment.  It would seem it is building the required host side tools in
>> this step, and the message seems to imply this only needs to be done
>> once per host which makes sense installing those tools somewhere in
>> the /opt/freescale directory to be shared by others.  Although, after
>> running ltib and it finishes, if I checkout ltib in another directory
>> and start a fresh build again, the ltib starts to recreate the host
>> side tools again.  That seems unnecessary.  Is there a way to tell
>> ltib to skip this host side tools step so they will use the previously
>> generated host side tools?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jim Newell
>>
>>
>>
>> address@hidden ltib]$ ./ltib
>>
>>
>>
>> Installing host support packages.
>>
>>
>>
>> This only needs to be done once per host, but may take up to
>>
>> an hour to complete ...
>>
>>
>>
>> If an error occurs, a log file with the full output may be found in:
>>
>> /home/newelljc/work/tmp2/ltib/host_config.log
>>
>>
>>
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