[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] systemtap-uprobes: inhibit package strip

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:24:58PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 07:19 -0700, Wade Farnsworth wrote:
> > uprobes.ko is not located in /lib/modules, so it fails the check in
> > runstrip that ensures that only the debug section is stripped, leaving
> > the symbols untouched.  This prevents the module from being inserted at
> > run time.  Inhibiting package stripping fixes the problem.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wade Farnsworth <wade_farnsworth at mentor.com>
> > ---
> >  .../systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb             |    2 ++
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb
> > index b328e6b..f135a54 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb
> > @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ PR = "r0"
> >  # On systems without CONFIG_UTRACE, this package is empty.
> >  ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
> >  
> > +INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP = "1"
> > +
> >  inherit module-base gettext
> >  
> >  FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/systemtap/runtime/uprobes"
> 
> I think we need to teach package.bbclass to identify kernel modules
> better (.ko extension?) rather than hack around this for each external
> module...

and sometimes it tries to strip foo.ko which is not binary file at all
(e.g. /usr/share/emacs/23.4/etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.ko from emacs).

http://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/?id=d213bfac739163eb932e31181e0bfecc84507f30

Cheers,

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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