Making machine config a build dependency for core-image recipes

Making machine config a build dependency for core-image recipes

[Yang, Fei]

I encountered a build issue when trying to generate /etc/inittab.
I have a meta-xxx/conf/machine/conf file which contains serial console information such as SERIAL_CONSOLE = "115200 ttyXYZ" or "115200 ttyS0" by default.
When I update that conf file and make an incremental build, the /etc/inittab doesn't get updated, I finally have to remove all the binaries and force a complete re-build to generate correct /etc/inittab with updated serial console settings, which take more than an hour to finish.
How do I create a dependency so that when I update my machine/conf file, an incremental build would take care of the change and re-generate the files in root FS accordingly? If that is impossible for now, can I just delete one or a few task binaries to trigger a rebuild on /etc/inittab? This would greatly reduce my build time.


Thanks,
Fei

Re: Making machine config a build dependency for core-image recipes

[Gary Thomas]

On 2012-01-18 15:04, Yang, Fei wrote:
> I encountered a build issue when trying to generate /etc/inittab.
> I have a meta-xxx/conf/machine/conf file which contains serial console information such as SERIAL_CONSOLE = "115200 ttyXYZ" or "115200 ttyS0" by default.
> When I update that conf file and make an incremental build, the /etc/inittab doesn't get updated, I finally have to remove all the binaries and force a complete re-build to generate correct /etc/inittab with updated serial console settings, which take more than an hour to finish.
> How do I create a dependency so that when I update my machine/conf file, an incremental build would take care of the change and re-generate the files in root FS accordingly? If that is impossible for now, can I just delete one or a few task binaries to trigger a rebuild on /etc/inittab? This would greatly reduce my build time.

You really only need to rebuild the sysvinit package.

    % ... make your modifications to machine/conf
    % bitbake sysvinit -c cleansstate
    % bitbake <whatever-image-you-like>

This package is not marked as machine dependent via
   PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
perhaps it should be since /etc/inittab is target dependent?

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Re: Making machine config a build dependency for core-image recipes

[Yang, Fei]

> This package is not marked as machine dependent via
>    PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
> perhaps it should be since /etc/inittab is target dependent?

Well, I just checked poky/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb, it does have PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}". Am I looking at wrong bb file? There is another file named sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb which doesn't have PACKAGE_ARCH set.


-Fei

Re: Making machine config a build dependency for core-image recipes

[Gary Thomas]

On 2012-01-18 16:50, Yang, Fei wrote:
>> This package is not marked as machine dependent via
>>     PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
>> perhaps it should be since /etc/inittab is target dependent?
>
> Well, I just checked poky/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb, it does have PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}". Am I looking at wrong bb file? There is another file named sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb which doesn't have PACKAGE_ARCH set.

Sorry, missed that one.  You should be rebuilding sysvinit-inittab

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Re: Making machine config a build dependency for core-image recipes

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Yang, Fei <fei.yang@intel.com> wrote:
> I encountered a build issue when trying to generate /etc/inittab.
> I have a meta-xxx/conf/machine/conf file which contains serial console information such as SERIAL_CONSOLE = "115200 ttyXYZ" or "115200 ttyS0" by default.
> When I update that conf file and make an incremental build, the /etc/inittab doesn't get updated, I finally have to remove all the binaries and force a complete re-build to generate correct /etc/inittab with updated serial console settings, which take more than an hour to finish.
> How do I create a dependency so that when I update my machine/conf file, an incremental build would take care of the change and re-generate the files in root FS accordingly? If that is impossible for now, can I just delete one or a few task binaries to trigger a rebuild on /etc/inittab? This would greatly reduce my build time.

You could try: 'bitbake sysvinit-inittab -c clean'.

Seems like there should be a better way to say sysvinit-inittab
depends on the machine/conf.

-M