[oe] linux recipe selected despite ASSUME_PROVIDED += "virtual/kernel"

[Koen Kooi]

On 27-07-09 10:46, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 09:50, Graham Gower<graham.gower at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I wish to build an Angstrom based console-image for mipsel from the
>> org.openembedded.dev branch. I maintain a kernel for the device but am
>> not yet ready to integrate this into an OE recipe. The default
>> linux_2.6.30.bb
>> fails to build for me, thus I wish to not build the kernel at this point
>> in time.
>>
>> My local.conf contains the following lines,
>> STAGING_KERNEL_DIR = "/home/grg/jz/linux"
>> ASSUME_PROVIDED += "virtual/kernel"
>
> I guess that a kernel is required to build an image: in instance to
> compile libc which relay on some kernel headers.

Bzzzt! Wrong! OE builds the libc headers from a different recipe called 
linux-libc-headers.

regards,

Koen