[OE-core] [PATCH] iw: fix build path

[Pushpal Sidhu]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Christopher Larson
<chris_larson at mentor.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Pushpal Sidhu <psidhu at gateworks.com> wrote:
>>
>> The source get's checked out into ${PN}-${PV}, not 'build'. Currently,
>> building
>> iw is broken because none of the source files are found.
>
>
> First, this message doesn't make sense. You're implying that bitbake thinks
> B is S, which it does not. Bitbake already knows the correct source tree
> path. The S = you add here is redundant, ${PN}-${PV} is the default value
> for S.
>
> If iw was failing to build with a separate build directory from source,
> you'd just need to remove B. That said, it's not, as far as I can tell. I
> build iw every day as is and it works just fine building with a separate
> build directory from source, so I suspect you have something wrong going on
> in your environment.

I agree with you about setting S, I put it in there to be explicit
(I've seen other package do this for clarity sake). Here are the
errors I'm seeing (even in a clean build):

DEBUG: Executing shell function do_install
NOTE: make -j 4 -f
/usr/src/psidhu/gw-yocto-master/build/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/iw/4.1-r0/iw-4.1/Makefile
PREFIX=/usr SBINDIR=/usr/sbin MANDIR=/usr/share/man
DESTDIR=/usr/src/psidhu/gw-yocto-master/build/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/iw/4.1-r0/image
install
 GEN  version.c
 CC   version.o
 CC   iw
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: iw.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: genl.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: event.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: info.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: phy.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: interface.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: ibss.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: station.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: survey.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: util.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: ocb.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: mesh.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: mpath.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: mpp.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: scan.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: reg.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: reason.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: status.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: connect.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: link.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: offch.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: ps.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: cqm.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: bitrate.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: wowlan.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: coalesce.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: roc.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: p2p.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: vendor.o: No such file or directory
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: sections.o: No such file or directory
make: *** [iw] Error 1
ERROR: oe_runmake failed
ERROR: Function failed: do_install (log file is located at
/usr/src/psidhu/gw-yocto-master/build/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/iw/4.1-r0/temp/log.do_install.24334)

- Pushpal