Any software expected to have a long lifetime will require maintenance which in turn means that you need to be able to build the software again in the future. So how can you ensure that in 10 years time that you will even have a system that is capable of running today’s build system? How …
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Improving Yocto Build Time
Yocto is an excellent distribution builder, however building any Linux distribution from scratch is resource intensive and may take a frustrating long time. This blog posts examines some of the most common techniques that can be used to reduce build times (and resource use). Downloads During a build, bitbake fetches source code from the internet …