On Oct 3, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfi...@windriver.com> wrote:
> When building against the sysroot, out of tree modules can require modpost
> and other utilities normally found in the kernel's scripts directory. For
> the kernel source in the staging dir, these scripts have been removed to
> avoid mixing archiectures when packaging kernel-dev (among other things).
>
> Rather than further complicate the kernel's install rule, or its packaging,
> we can jump into the sysroot and restore the scripts by building them, hence
> making them available to packages that need them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfi...@windriver.com>
> ---
> meta/classes/kernel.bbclass | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> index 4acfb7e..d856e31 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> @@ -294,6 +294,14 @@ do_install[prefuncs] += "package_get_auto_pr"
>
> sysroot_stage_all_append() {
> sysroot_stage_dir ${D}${KERNEL_SRC_PATH}
> ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${KERNEL_SRC_PATH}
> +
> + # Restore kernel scripts in the sysroot, since they had to be removed
> during
> + # packaging to avoid mismatched arch QA errors, but are required/useful
> when
> + # packages like out of tree kernel modules are built. Rather than
> playing QA
> + # games, it is easier to just do this work in the sysroot.
> + ( cd ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${KERNEL_SRC_PATH};
This was cd ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${KERNEL_SRC_PATH}/scripts in my patch but I will
test out this one too.
but this is ok since
ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
# Additional helpers built in scripts/
# Carefully list dependencies so we do not try to build scripts twice
# in parallel
PHONY += scripts
scripts: scripts_basic include/config/auto.conf include/config/tristate.conf \
asm-generic
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(@)
> + oe_runmake scripts
> + )
> }
>
> kernel_do_configure() {
> --
> 1.8.1.2
>
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