[OE-core] [PATCH v3 4/6] bmap-tools: generate standalone script

[Christopher Larson]

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 7:31 PM, Christopher Larson <clarson at kergoth.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Generated standalone bmaptool script that is more convenient
>> to use than native script. It can be run straight from
>> its location ./tmp/deploy/tools/bmaptool. The script doesn't
>> depend on anything except Python.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com>
>>
>
> You're right that this is very handy, but we hit a problem when building
> from shared state. This uses do_deploy to deploy bmaptool into
> DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE, but IMAGE_DEPENDS only depends on do_populate_sysroot,
> not do_deploy, so an image build from sstate won't write this script out.
>
> I don't know the right way to fix this, but it's a problem. I just ran
> into it :)
>

Also, the convention is to add do_deploy before do_build, not before
do_package, otherwise do_deploy's checksum is included int he checksums of
do_package and subsequent tasks, even though its output isn't used by any
subsequent tasks.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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