From: Andrei Dinu <andrei.adrianx.dinu@intel.com>
To: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: is there a variable where the kernel version is stored?
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:42:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F26ECC.3060202@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2661953.CXEvbvU0xy@helios>
On 07/26/2013 03:39 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Andrei,
>
> On Friday 26 July 2013 15:28:54 Andrei Dinu wrote:
>> I'm having a problem trying to run Bastille. Seems like the kernel
>> version has changed from 3.8.11 to 3.8.13 and
>> in order to run Bastille, i need to patch a file used by the tool to
>> check the version of the system. It was previously
>> patched with linux-yocto-3.8.11 version, but now it has changed to
>> linux-yocto-3.8.13 and the tool doesn't work
>> because it doesn't identify the right version of the kernel.
>>
>> Is there a way to find out the kernel version at build time so i can
>> replace it dynamically in that specific file?
> Hmm, so if you add a DEPENDS on virtual/kernel you should be able to rely on
> the contents of ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR}/kernel-abiversion - have a look at what
> meta/classes/module.bbclass does with this.
Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-26 12:28 is there a variable where the kernel version is stored? Andrei Dinu
2013-07-26 12:39 ` Paul Eggleton
2013-07-26 12:42 ` Andrei Dinu [this message]
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