Re: [PATCH 1/1] kernel: restore scripts in the sysroot

[Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>]

On Tuesday 08 October 2013 at 17:12:54 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> When building against the sysroot, out of tree modules can require modpost
> and other utilities normally found in the kernel's scripts directory. For
> the kernel source in the staging dir, these scripts have been removed to
> avoid mixing archiectures when packaging kernel-dev (among other things).
> 
> Rather than further complicate the kernel's install rule, or its packaging,
> we can restore the scripts by building them in the kernel staging directory
> after the sstate is installed, making them available to packages that need them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/kernel.bbclass | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> index 4acfb7e..d5fa801 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> @@ -292,6 +292,17 @@ kernel_do_install() {
>  }
>  do_install[prefuncs] += "package_get_auto_pr"
>  
> +
> +SSTATEPOSTINSTFUNCS += "kernelscripts_sstate_postinst"
> +kernelscripts_sstate_postinst () {
> +	if [ "${BB_CURRENTTASK}" = "populate_sysroot" -o "${BB_CURRENTTASK}" = "populate_sysroot_setscene" ]; then
> +		( 
> +		  cd ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR}
> +		  oe_runmake scripts
> +		)
> +	fi
> +}
> +
>  sysroot_stage_all_append() {
>  	sysroot_stage_dir ${D}${KERNEL_SRC_PATH} ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${KERNEL_SRC_PATH}
>  }

This sstate_postinst fails for me when the compiler isn't already present
in the sysroot.

Also, I notice that the environment and parameters passed to oe_runmake are
not the same as those used by kernel_do_compile etc.

Patches to follow.

Mike.