[OE-core] [PATCH] kernel.bbclass: set HOSTLDFLAGS in KCONFIG_CONFIG_COMMAND

[Randy MacLeod]

On 2018-03-15 03:53 PM, Cal Sullivan wrote:
> Woops, +Ross to CC.
Maybe you used BCC? Anyway +Ross to CC for reals now. :)
../Randy
> 
> ---
> Cal
> 
> On 03/15/2018 12:42 PM, Cal Sullivan wrote:
>> Ping. This is still an issue and it looks like this patch fell through 
>> the cracks!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cal
>>
>> On 01/24/2018 07:12 PM, California Sullivan wrote:
>>> Kernel v4.14 and newer contain the following in their Makefile:
>>>
>>> HOST_LFS_LDFLAGS := $(shell getconf LFS_LDFLAGS)
>>> HOSTLDFLAGS  := $(HOST_LFS_LDFLAGS)
>>>
>>> This breaks our menuconfig, because it can no longer find ncurses if its
>>> not on the host machine. This can be seen in linux-yocto-dev, for
>>> example:
>>>
>>> [clsulliv at clsulliv build]$ bitbake virtual/kernel -c menuconfig
>>>
>>>    GEN     ./Makefile
>>>    HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/mconf
>>> /home/clsulliv/yocto/poky/build/tmp/hosttools/ld: cannot find -lncurses
>>> /home/clsulliv/yocto/poky/build/tmp/hosttools/ld: cannot find -ltinfo
>>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>>> make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:99: scripts/kconfig/mconf] Error 1
>>> make[2]: *** 
>>> [/home/clsulliv/yocto/poky/build/tmp/work-shared/intel-corei7-64/kernel-source/Makefile:504: 
>>> menuconfig] Error 2
>>> make[1]: *** [Makefile:146: sub-make] Error 2
>>> make: *** [Makefile:24: __sub-make] Error 2
>>> Command failed.
>>> Press any key to continue...
>>>
>>> Fix this by setting HOSTLDFLAGS to ${BUILD_LDFLAGS} in our
>>> 'make menuconfig' command.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: California Sullivan <california.l.sullivan at intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>   meta/classes/kernel.bbclass | 2 ++
>>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
>>> index 2f6eca382e9..e4df1531c19 100644
>>> --- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
>>> +++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
>>> @@ -531,6 +531,8 @@ addtask savedefconfig after do_configure
>>>     inherit cml1
>>>   +KCONFIG_CONFIG_COMMAND_append = " HOSTLDFLAGS='${BUILD_LDFLAGS}'"
>>> +
>>>   EXPORT_FUNCTIONS do_compile do_install do_configure
>>>     # kernel-base becomes kernel-${KERNEL_VERSION}
>>
> 


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