[OE-core] [RFC] kernel: Enable externalsrc on kernels which instantiate kernel.bbclass

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 22 September 2014 13:04:47 Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 14-09-22 01:03 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Bruce Ashfield
> > 
> > <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:
> >> But the reports we've been getting have been that externalsrc
> >> builds are working for kernels, and linux-yocto without the change
> >> in place, so I'm looking to reduce the patch footprint and re-submit.
> > 
> > no, it cant work if folks were trying the usecase I have mentioned.
> > The fix is infact for
> > non linux-yocto kernels.
> 
> I'll send out my updated patch shortly, it should fix both cases.

Bruce, did you get around to doing this?

At the moment I am trying to make my workflow tool ("devtool modify") work with 
linux-yocto. I've at least got to the point where I can extract the 
appropriate source from the recipe, but when I use externalsrc to point to it 
and then try to build it, it doesn't even get past do_configure, so something 
must be missing (make complains about missing targets, presumably because it's 
running in ${B} and there's nothing in that directory).

Do you expect linux-yocto + externalsrc to work at the moment in master? If 
so, are there any special steps I need to do with respect to preparing the 
external source tree that my tool might not be performing?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre