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

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2018-03-01 9:22 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Swore I picked the v2 patch for the second run, I've fired a mini test 
> build to see.

The other failures reported were valid and not addressed by v2. So only
32 bit ARM would have been fixed (packaging wise), the rest were ok.

I build and deployed kernel-devsrc for ARM multiple times, so if it does
actually fail again .. I'm *very* interested to hear.

Bruce

> 
> Ross
> 
> On 1 March 2018 at 13:59, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com 
> <mailto:bruce.ashfield at windriver.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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
>             <http://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 <mailto: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
>         <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
>         <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
>         <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
> 
> 
>