[OE-core] linux-yocto-custom. error in patch step

[Anders Darander]

Hi,

I've been playing around a little bit with linux-yocto-custom, however,
i'm currently getting a build error (rather patch error)...

Skipping my own layers and machines, I've reproduced the same issue by
just taking oe-core (or poky), and editing
meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux-yocto-custom.bb accoring to the
partial patch below, and adding a defconfig in
meta-skeletons/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom/defconfig:

---------------------
@@ -47,18 +47,23 @@ require recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
 # Override SRC_URI in a bbappend file to point at a different source
 # tree if you do not want to build from Linus' tree.
 SRC_URI =
"git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;protocol=git;nocheckout=1"
+SRC_URI += "file://defconfig"
 
-LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.4"
+LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.8"
 LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION ?= "-custom"
 
 # Override SRCREV to point to a different commit in a bbappend file to
 # build a different release of the Linux kernel.
 # tag: v3.4 76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc
-SRCREV="76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc"
+SRCREV="19f949f52599ba7c3f67a5897ac6be14bfcb1200"
+
+
 
 PR = "r1"
 PV = "${LINUX_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}"
 
 # Override COMPATIBLE_MACHINE to include your machine in a bbappend
 # file. Leaving it empty here ensures an early explicit build failure.
-COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "(^$)"
+COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "qemuarm"
----------------------

I'm using qemuarm as a playground (as I'm normally running a custom arm
machine).

This gives the following error:
ERROR: Function failed: do_patch (see
/home/anders/poky/build/tmp/work/qemuarm-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto-custom/3.8+gitAUTOINC+19f949f52599ba7c3f67a5897ac6be14bfcb1200-r1/temp/log.do_patch.8972
for further information)
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
/home/anders/poky/build/tmp/work/qemuarm-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto-custom/3.8+gitAUTOINC+19f949f52599ba7c3f67a5897ac6be14bfcb1200-r1/temp/log.do_patch.8972
Log data follows:
| DEBUG: Executing shell function do_patch
| WARNING: no meta data branch found ...
| Already on 'master'
| Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 12742 commits, and can be
fast-forwarded.
| ERROR. input file "meta/cfg/scratch/obj/qemuarm-standard.scc" does not
exist
| ERROR. A meta series could not be created for
meta/cfg/scratch/obj/qemuarm-standard.scc
| ERROR. Could not locate meta series for qemuarm
| ERROR. Could not apply patches for qemuarm.
|        Patch failures can be resolved in the devshell (bitbake -c
devshell linux-yocto-custom)
| ERROR: Function failed: do_patch (see
/home/anders/poky/build/tmp/work/qemuarm-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto-custom/3.8+gitAUTOINC+19f949f52599ba7c3f67a5897ac6be14bfcb1200-r1/temp/log.do_patch.8972
for further information)
ERROR: Task 3
(/home/anders/poky/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom.bb,
do_patch) failed with exit code '1'


Using my own machine, I got a similar error, that
${MACHINE}-standard.scc didn't exist. 

The plan is to use a defconfig as the main configuration, and possibly
later on add config fragments for certain featuers.

However, I'm missing one step, as I'm not able to build without the
meta/cfg/scratch/obj/qemuarm-standard.scc file.

Any hints on what step I've currently overlooked would be nice...

Cheers,
Anders

-- 
Anders Darander
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB