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On 07/27/2011 10:25 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> To run a customized kernel configuration, I've been doing this:
>   % bitbake virtual/kernel
>   % bitbake virtual/kernel -c menuconfig
>   % bitbake virtual/kernel -c compile -f
>   % bitbake virtual/kernel
> 
> Is there some way that the kernel recipes (probably kernel.bbclass)
> could mark the compile state as invalid so that the '-c compile -f'
> step is no longer needed (implied)?

What's the reason around the first bitbake?  I know with pstage you
needed to do that for an empty TMPDIR to populate out everything else,
but sstate shouldn't have that weakness.  It should just be:
$ bitbake virtual/kernel -c menuconfig
$ bitbake virtual/kernel

And get populating from sstate correct.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation