[OE-core] [PATCH] linux-libc-headers: Don't do useless configuration

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 9:03 AM Alexey Brodkin
<Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com> wrote:
>
> There's no point in configuring Linux kernel before
> headers installation.
>

At one point the headers install did not work with out a .config file,
has that changed ?
if so then this is fine to remove it but this change needs to be done
a bit differently if thats what it did in this task

remove do_configure and then add

do_configure[noexec] = "1"


> Moreover in come cases it might lead to problems on kernels
> starting from 4.17 with architecture or platfrom sets
> CROSS_COMPILE variable automatically, see [1].
>
> Also note Buildroot doesn't do that kind of confiuration as
> well, see [2].
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/12/486
> [2] https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/package/linux-headers/linux-headers.mk#n106
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers.inc | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers.inc
> index 05c82558e653..1a365ddeb6a9 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers.inc
> @@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/linux-${PV}"
>  EXTRA_OEMAKE = " HOSTCC="${BUILD_CC}" HOSTCPP="${BUILD_CPP}""
>
>  do_configure() {
> -       oe_runmake allnoconfig
>  }
>
>  do_compile () {
> --
> 2.17.1
>
> --
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