[OE-core] RFC: Further kernel build process changes?

[Hart, Darren]

On 1/12/15, 5:27 PM, "Robert Yang" <liezhi.yang at windriver.com> wrote:

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>On 01/13/2015 09:19 AM, Robert Yang wrote:
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>> On 01/07/2015 08:26 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> I'm hearing (somewhat justified) complaints that the recent kernel
>>> changes have destablised builds. Part of the question is whether the
>>> recent changes are as clear to users as they could be, we're also
>>> running into some problems due to mixing kernel source and build
>>> artefacts in some places and not in others.
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>> Currently, the kernel_do_install directly installs the files to sysroot,
>> then we will get the errors like the following when rebuild:
>>
>> |   Using 
>>/buildarea/lyang1/testup3/tmp/sysroots/qemux86-64/usr/src/kernel as
>> source for kernel
>> |   /buildarea/lyang1/testup3/tmp/sysroots/qemux86-64/usr/src/kernel is
>>not
>> clean, please run 'make mrproper'
>> |   in the 
>>'/buildarea/lyang1/testup3/tmp/sysroots/qemux86-64/usr/src/kernel'
>> directory.
>> | make[3]: Nothing to be done for `relocs'.
>>
>> How about we add a kerne-src.rpm which includes the usr/src/kernel, and
>>use
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>I just noticed that we have this which was added on Dec. 5th.
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>meta/recipes-kernel/linux/kernel-devsrc.bb

Right, and there have been various issues related with that. We're working
through those currently.


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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center