[oe] [PATCH] Reorganized kernel class to run 'menuconfig' after 'configure'.

Phil Blundell philb at gnu.org
Wed Nov 18 10:25:54 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 23:18 +0100, Przemyslaw Wesolek wrote:
> Previously, 'menuconfig' task was being run just after 'patch' one. In
> result, the most common path for unexperienced users:
> 
> bitbake virtual/kernel -c menuconfig
> bitbake virtual/kernel -c build
> 
> didn't work, because the result of 'menuconfig' was later overwritten by
> 'configure' on the chain of 'build'.
> 
> With this patch, 'configure' is requirement for 'menuconfig',
> so any manual changes to the kernel config is done just before
> actual build and no overwrite occurs.

Thanks for the patch.  That seems like a reasonable change and I think
it's been proposed before without anybody speaking up in favour of the
old behaviour.  I checked this in.

p.






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