[OE-core] [PATCH] [RFC] kernel: rework kernel and module classes to allow for building out-of-tree modules

[Darren Hart]

On 03/15/2011 12:34 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 12:27 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
>>
>> On 03/15/2011 11:23 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 10:24 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Darren Hart<dvhart at linux.intel.com>   wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> What are the ownership and perms on those?
>>>>>
>>>>> I suppose we could avoid the .pc directory - but it's going to require
>>>>> something more than cp or some additional scripting. Something like tar's
>>>>> exclude functionality might be needed - but I hate to add the intermediate
>>>>> step as the kernel recipes are already so slow.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> hmmm I wonder why those are marked non readable in .pc directory  that
>>>> seems wrong to me
>>>
>>> Its quilt that does this. Kind of annoying but its been doing that for a
>>> few versions now...
>>
>> I recall purging .pc for this reason (just in other development, outside
>> of poky).
>>
>> I take it deleting .pc from the build dir would be bad as it would make
>> build/hack/build fail to work on the workdir tree. That leaves changing
>> the permissions and copying it, or just avoiding the copy. I'm leaning
>> towards avoiding the copy - but I hate to add a ton of scripting logic
>> in the copy, but that may be the best solution.
>
> Can't you just do a "cp -r xxx/*" and if you need any . files "cp
> xxx/.*" ?

Well yes, I suppose I can. Duh. Sorry, forest for the trees and all that.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel