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

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 9:35 AM Alexey Brodkin
<Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Khem,
>
> On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 09:29 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > 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 ?
>
> Well that's hard to tell as I have no idea when and what kind of breakage
> was seen :)
>
> I'd say with up-to-date kernels it shouldn't happen and that's the
> point Masahiro-san made here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/12/678
>

We lock the kernel-headers anyway to if it is how it is in 4.18 we
should be fine

>
> > 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"
>
> Ok will do that. But why do we have 2 lines below:
> ------------------------------>8--------------------------
> do_compile ()
> {
> }
> ------------------------------>8--------------------------
>

you can change that too. Probably its there before noexec approach was adopted
widely.

> -Alexey