Re: [PATCH] kernel-devsrc: Handle ppc crtsaves.o explictly for now

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 23:43 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Resolve kernel module build failures for qemuppc by including crtsaves.o.
> >
> > I'm not particularly happy to be doing this, it should perhaps be contained
> > in the kernel-dev package. Until the overlap between kernel-devsrc and
> > kernel-dev is resolved, this at least removed the regressions.
> 
> Interesting. I built qemuppc for core-image-kerneldev and core-image-sato and
> didn't see this.
> 
> Are the build steps that triggered this captured in the bug ? Or are they in the
> mailing list thread ? Either way, I'd like to run them here as part of
> any follow
> on cleanups.
> 
> But the patch makes sense, and looks fine to me for the current state.

Reproducer is/was in local.conf:

TEST_IMAGE = "1"
TEST_SUITES = "kernelmodule"

MACHINE=qemuppc bitbake core-image-sato-sdk

which will then build the image, boot it and then try and build a kernel
module. I did cheat and disable QT4 when I did it locally.

Cheers,

Richard