Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] kernel: Pass sysroot mkimage to kernel makefile

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 15:23 +0800, zhe.he@windriver.com wrote:
> From: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
> 
> Pass mkimage in sysroot to kernel makefile by NATIVE_MKIMAGE to avoid
> depending on build machine's when KEEPUIMAGE is "yes".
> 
> Fixes [YOCTO #6945].
> 
> Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/kernel.bbclass | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> index 86ed28f..1d7fa48 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT ?= "20008000"
>  UBOOT_LOADADDRESS ?= "${UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT}"
>  
>  # Some Linux kernel configurations need additional parameters on the command line
> -KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS ?= ""
> +KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS ?= "NATIVE_MKIMAGE=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/mkimage"
>  
>  # For the kernel, we don't want the '-e MAKEFLAGS=' in EXTRA_OEMAKE.
>  # We don't want to override kernel Makefile variables from the environment

${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE} should be in PATH ahead of the usual system
paths. Why therefore is this necessary? Is something resetting PATH?

Cheers,

Richard