Re: [poky] Syntax for requiring a dependency task's deploy phase to be finished

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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Richard Purdie schreef:
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:53 -0600, Matt Hoosier wrote:
>> I'm trying to build a kernel containing an initramfs linked directly
>> into the kernel binary. This is inspired by the recent discussion
>> here: building a minimal image with IMAGE_FSTYPE set to cpio.
>>
>> I need to be sure that by the time the kernel's do_compile task
>> executes, the minimal image has been deploy to ${DEPLOY_DIR}/image.
>> What's the right way to write this dependency?
> 
> If I understand correctly you want something like
> 
> do_compile[depends] += "minimal-image:do_deploy"
> 
> inside the kernel recipe where "minimal-image" is the name of the image
> recipe.

And make sure *nothing* in that image depends on a kernel at buildtime,
otherwise bitbake will start spewing incomprehensible backtraces :)
A better approach would be to write a bbclass that takes a kernel image
and initramfs and glues those together.

regards,

Koen



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