[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] kernel: restore scripts in the sysroot

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 13-10-04 03:46 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 20:02 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> When building against the sysroot, out of tree modules can require modpost
>> and other utilities normally found in the kernel's scripts directory. For
>> the kernel source in the staging dir, these scripts have been removed to
>> avoid mixing archiectures when packaging kernel-dev (among other things).
>
> Its also to avoid mixing architectures when packaging the sstate for
> do_populate_sysroot. The sstate for that task is now native arch
> specific after this patch but its task hash is not. Even if we made it
> native specific, that means the kernel would rebuild entirely if you
> switch 32 bit to 64 bit native machine. We therefore cannot merge this
> patch as is.

Aha! I knew there was a lurking element I wouldn't know about. I nearly
put "RFC" in the patch .. and clearly should have :)

>
> Instead do something like:
>
>
> SSTATEPOSTINSTFUNCS += "kernelheaders_sstate_postinst"
>
> kernelheaders_sstate_postinst () {
> 	if [ "${BB_CURRENTTASK}" = "populate_sysroot" -o "${BB_CURRENTTASK}" = "populate_sysroot_setscene" ]
> 	then
> 		( cd ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${KERNEL_SRC_PATH};
> 		  oe_runmake scripts
> 		)
> 	fi
> }
>
> This will rerun the oe_runmake scripts each time the sstate package is
> installed. It slows down the use of sstate but should be correct whether
> the build machine is 32 or 64 bit.

I'll try what you have above and re-spin the patch.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>