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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel.bbclass: Add dependency on binutils
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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