[OE-core] [PATCH v2] kernel-devsrc: restructure for out of tree (and on target) module builds

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2018-03-01 5:58 AM, Maxin B. John wrote:
> 
>> Also fails on musl:
>>
>> ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'glibc-utils' (but /home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-musl/build/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/kernel-devsrc.bb RDEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
>>
>> Ross
>>
>> On 1 March 2018 at 08:28, Maxin B. John <maxin.john at intel.com> wrote:
> 
>   >On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 02:20:45PM -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>   >> The existing kernel-devsrc package starts with a full copy of the kernel
>   >> source and then starts to strip out elements that are not required.
>   >>
>   >> This results in extra time (I/O) and extra space being taken up in the
>   >> final package. The main purpose of the kernel-devsrc package has been to
>   >> build modules against the running kernel, not to include a full copy of
>   >> the source code for re-building the kernel. The end result was a
>   >> 600M kernel-devsrc package.
> 
>   Other failures are listed below:
>   
>   arm64:
>   https://autobuilder.yocto.io/builders/nightly-arm64/builds/790/steps/Running%20Sanity%20Tests/logs/stdio
> 
>   RESULTS - kernelmodule.KernelModuleTest.test_kernel_module - Testcase 1541: FAILED
> 
> HOSTCC  scripts/sortextable
>   scripts/sortextable.c:31:10: fatal error: tools/be_byteshift.h: No such file or directory
> #include <tools/be_byteshift.h>
>    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:102: scripts/sortextable] Error 1
> make: *** [Makefile:557: scripts] Error 2
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Similar on qemuarm - poky-lsb :
> 
> https://autobuilder.yocto.io/builders/nightly-arm-lsb/builds/812/steps/Running%20Sanity%20Tests/logs/stdio
> 
> HOSTCC  scripts/recordmcount
> HOSTCC  scripts/sortextable
> scripts/sortextable.c:31:10: fatal error: tools/be_byteshift.h: No such file or directory
>      #include <tools/be_byteshift.h>
>                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>                compilation terminated.
>                make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:102: scripts/sortextable] Error 1
>                make: *** [Makefile:557: scripts] Error 2
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Also on PowerPC:
> 
> https://autobuilder.yocto.io/builders/nightly-ppc-lsb/builds/814/steps/Running%20Sanity%20Tests/logs/stdio
> 
> scripts/sortextable.c:31:10: fatal error: tools/be_byteshift.h: No such file or directory
>   #include <tools/be_byteshift.h>
>             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:102: scripts/sortextable] Error 1
> make: *** [Makefile:557: scripts] Error 2

I have all these fixed now.

Will have a look at musl next.

Cheers,

Bruce

> 
> Best Regards,
> Maxin
>