On 08/12/2015 05:26 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> So, I've been debugging the issue of oprofile rebuilding from one MACHINE to
> another (causing PR issues, etc). I was able to trace it down to this line:
Why not use perf instead of oprofile?
Philip
>
> EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-kernel=${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR} --without-x
> ac_cv_prog_XSLTPROC="
>
> And STAGING_KERNEL_DIR resolves to this:
>
> STAGING_KERNEL_DIR = "${TMPDIR}/work-shared/${MACHINE}/kernel-source"
>
> Now, obviously, when MACHINE changes, sstate invalidates do_configure and
> rebuilds oprofile.
>
> The question is, what is the proper fix in this case - mark oprofile as
> machine-specific with PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}", since it will be
> configuring and building against (potentially) completely different kernel
> tree. So, just mark it explicitly and be safe...
>
> Or another option is to tell sstate to ignore changes to the above variables
> with this simple line:
>
> EXTRA_OECONF[vardepsexclude] = "STAGING_KERNEL_DIR"
>
> This also does the trick, but I'm a bit worried there could be side-effects
> of
> using oprofile against the wrong kernel... Any recommendations?
>
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