[OE-core] [PATCH] kernel.bbclass: Add dependency on binutils

[Khem Raj]

On May 20, 2013, at 5:22 AM, Mike Crowe <mac at mcrowe.com> wrote:

> Compiling the Linux kernel requires binutils; kernel.bbclass uses
> INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS so it had better depend on binutils explicitly.
> 
> (The lack of this dependency isn't always a problem because binutils
> is required to build gcc-cross but if gcc-cross is reconstructed from
> the sstate cache then gcc-cross's dependency on binutils-cross is
> ignored due to being in the safe dependency list in
> setscene_depvalid.)

what good is cross-gcc without cross-binutils. Could it be fixed in gcc recipes instead so
it pulls binutils-cross 

> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Crowe <mac at mcrowe.com>
> Acked-by: Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org>
> ---
> meta/classes/kernel.bbclass |    2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> index ffb0b11..38973db 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> inherit linux-kernel-base module_strip kernel-module-split
> 
> PROVIDES += "virtual/kernel"
> -DEPENDS += "virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc kmod-native depmodwrapper-cross"
> +DEPENDS += "virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}binutils virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc kmod-native depmodwrapper-cross"
> 
> # we include gcc above, we dont need virtual/libc
> INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 
> 
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