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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel.bbclass: Add dependency on binutils
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 23:25:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1369088718.11013.3.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B646CCF4-2E7C-4135-AD1D-D72E0827C779@gmail.com>

On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 10:37 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On May 20, 2013, at 5:22 AM, Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com> wrote:
> 
> > Compiling the Linux kernel requires binutils; kernel.bbclass uses
> > INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS so it had better depend on binutils explicitly.
> > 
> > (The lack of this dependency isn't always a problem because binutils
> > is required to build gcc-cross but if gcc-cross is reconstructed from
> > the sstate cache then gcc-cross's dependency on binutils-cross is
> > ignored due to being in the safe dependency list in
> > setscene_depvalid.)
> 
> what good is cross-gcc without cross-binutils. Could it be fixed in gcc recipes instead so
> it pulls binutils-cross 

This needs fixing in the logic in sstate.bbclass.

Cheers,

Richard



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-20 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-20 12:22 [PATCH] kernel.bbclass: Add dependency on binutils Mike Crowe
2013-05-20 17:37 ` Khem Raj
2013-05-20 20:29   ` Mike Crowe
2013-05-20 22:25   ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2013-05-21  8:41     ` Mike Crowe
2013-06-13 14:06       ` [PATCH] sstate.bbclass: binutils-cross is not a safe dependency Mike Crowe
2013-06-13 15:00         ` Richard Purdie

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