On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 07:28 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:

I just ran 'bitbake <image> -c fetchall' in a clean build tree
and noticed that this builds a bunch of native packages:

$ ls -l tmp/work/*/*/*/temp/log.do_compile.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 76530 Apr 8 14:17 tmp/work/i686-linux/apr-native/1.4.8-r0/temp/log.do_compile.8115
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 51866 Apr 8 14:17 tmp/work/i686-linux/apr-util-native/1.5.2-r0/temp/log.do_compile.19690
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 27916 Apr 8 14:11 tmp/work/i686-linux/autoconf-native/2.69-r11/temp/log.do_compile.20820
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 11925 Apr 8 14:11 tmp/work/i686-linux/automake-native/1.14-r0/temp/log.do_compile.22425
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 28129 Apr 8 14:14 tmp/work/i686-linux/bzip2-native/1.0.6-r5/temp/log.do_compile.12000
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 85 Apr 8 14:11 tmp/work/i686-linux/cryptodev-linux-native/1.6-r0/temp/log.do_compile.13477
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 5815 Apr 8 14:14 tmp/work/i686-linux/expat-native/2.1.0-r0/temp/log.do_compile.25198
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 41125 Apr 8 14:15 tmp/work/i686-linux/file-native/5.16-r0/temp/log.do_compile.28856
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 92543 Apr 8 14:14 tmp/work/i686-linux/gdbm-native/1.11-r0/temp/log.do_compile.5100
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 110 Apr 8 14:10 tmp/work/i686-linux/gettext-minimal-native/0.18.3.2-r0/temp/log.do_compile.9603
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 85 Apr 8 14:10 tmp/work/i686-linux/gnu-config-native/20120814-r0/temp/log.do_compile.8957
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 787508 Apr 8 14:18 tmp/work/i686-linux/gnutls-native/2.12.23-r8.4/temp/log.do_compile.6985
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 10398 Apr 8 14:10 tmp/work/i686-linux/libcap-native/2.22-r6/temp/log.do_compile.10990
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 129792 Apr 8 14:15 tmp/work/i686-linux/libgcrypt-native/1.5.3-r0/temp/log.do_compile.15135
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 26450 Apr 8 14:14 tmp/work/i686-linux/libgpg-error-native/1.12-r0/temp/log.do_compile.1064
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 83871 Apr 8 14:14 tmp/work/i686-linux/libtasn1-native/3.4-r0/temp/log.do_compile.23801
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 34071 Apr 8 14:12 tmp/work/i686-linux/libtool-native/2.4.2-r6.1/temp/log.do_compile.27475
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 278406 Apr 8 14:21 tmp/work/i686-linux/libxml2-native/2.9.1-r0/temp/log.do_compile.3191
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 189586 Apr 8 14:12 tmp/work/i686-linux/lzo-native/2.06-r1/temp/log.do_compile.10403
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 101354 Apr 8 14:11 tmp/work/i686-linux/m4-native/1.4.17-r0/temp/log.do_compile.19559
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 829027 Apr 8 14:13 tmp/work/i686-linux/ncurses-native/5.9-r15.1/temp/log.do_compile.11001
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 14753 Apr 8 14:21 tmp/work/i686-linux/neon-native/0.30.0-r0/temp/log.do_compile.15805
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 504937 Apr 8 14:16 tmp/work/i686-linux/openssl-native/1.0.1e-r15.0/temp/log.do_compile.30233
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 3170 Apr 8 14:13 tmp/work/i686-linux/pigz-native/2.3.1-r0/temp/log.do_compile.4503
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 149805 Apr 8 14:13 tmp/work/i686-linux/pkgconfig-native/0.28-r0/temp/log.do_compile.12369
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 100152 Apr 8 14:19 tmp/work/i686-linux/python-native/2.7.3-r0.1/temp/log.do_compile.32093
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 1585 Apr 8 14:10 tmp/work/i686-linux/quilt-native/0.61-r0/temp/log.do_compile.8085
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 34761 Apr 8 14:14 tmp/work/i686-linux/readline-native/6.3-r0/temp/log.do_compile.19880
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 8633 Apr 8 14:15 tmp/work/i686-linux/sqlite3-native/1_3.8.3.1-r0/temp/log.do_compile.28334
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 473033 Apr 8 14:23 tmp/work/i686-linux/subversion-native/1.7.10-r0/temp/log.do_compile.19956
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 911700 Apr 8 14:16 tmp/work/i686-linux/util-linux-native/2.24.1-r0/temp/log.do_compile.2925
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 475772 Apr 8 14:13 tmp/work/i686-linux/xz-native/5.1.3alpha-r0/temp/log.do_compile.21732
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary develop 8341 Apr 8 14:13 tmp/work/i686-linux/zlib-native/1.2.8-r0/temp/log.do_compile.614

Why?

Note: this is using the latest Poky/Yocto master, but I've
seen this behaviour for a long time...

There are svn repositories in there and its therefore building
subversion-native. I believe that has dependencies that look like most
of the above.

Cheers,

Richard