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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 08:07 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 2014-12-19, 7:41 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 10:28 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> >> I want to give people a headsup that we're having problems merging
> >> changes at the moment. We've been doing our best but the number of
> >> things building up which are causing issues is overwheling our ability
> >> to fix and stablise the build. It wasn't helped that I took a long
> >> weekend's vacation last weekend. There are changes being made or tested
> >> to the autobuilder which also isn't helping.
> >>
> >> The kernel series has several issues:
> >>
> >>    * a random failure in do_kernel_configme [i]
> >
> > I think I have a handle on this. If you look at the autobuilder failure
> > it says:
> 
> do you have a link to the actual failure ?

It was in a previous mail:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-ppc-lsb/builds/129/steps/BuildImages/logs/stdio

> > The fix is therefore probably to not run the fetch/unpack/patch tasks in
> > kernelsrc.bbclass.
> 
> Very likely. I'll have a look. I noticed about 6 months ago that a patches
> directory was being created .. even when it was never going to be used.
> I took steps to remove it before the linux-yocto builds continued, but
> apparently it is sneaking back in through other means :)

kernelsrc.bbclass sets ${S} to point at the directory so other recipes
can create it.

Cheers,

Richard