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

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 06 February 2014 02:05:05 Khem Raj wrote:
> This also make a change where for kernel
> S != B, this is done because when S = B
> and we use O= option or set KBUILD_OUTPUT
> to point to objectdir, kernel build system
> ends up denoting itself dirty and asking for
> running mrproper during later build steps
> after do_configure but works perfectly
> for when S != B
> 
> Additional fixes make sure that we do not
> assume directory paths when accessing files
> 
> Move exporting KBUILD_OUTPUT from kernel-yocto
> into kernel class
> 
> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>

So discussion on this patch seems to have stalled - did you guys make any 
progress offline?

Looking over the patch I'd guess we'd want to try to avoid cd'ing and instead 
be explicit about the path where needed.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre