From: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 6/6] image_types_wic: gate syslinux-native on the target, not the build host
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2026 22:10:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260802021000.2886095-7-twoerner@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260802021000.2886095-1-twoerner@gmail.com>
A .wks needs the syslinux installer only when the target is x86.
image_types_wic.bbclass selects syslinux-native on the build host
architecture instead, so the dependency lands like this:
| x86 target | non-x86 target
-------------+------------+----------------
x86 host | yes | yes
non-x86 host | no | no
Two of those cells are wrong. An x86 image cross-built on a non-x86 host
gets the target bootloader without the installer that writes it, and an
x86 host building a non-x86 image builds an installer nothing uses.
Gate on the target, as wic-tools does [1]:
| x86 target | non-x86 target
-------------+------------+----------------
x86 host | yes | no
non-x86 host | yes | no
Bug 13276 [2] was an aarch64 host failing to build syslinux-native for
an ARM target, at a time when syslinux was x86-only in every variant. It
was closed in 2019 by gating on BUILD_ARCH [3]. Since 7273e131bfc7 [4]
only syslinux's target code is x86-specific, so a host gate is no longer
needed, and gating on the target keeps 13276's case fixed.
[YOCTO #16383]
[1] https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.bb
[2] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13276
[3] https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=7e2ee2b59319
[4] https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=7273e131bfc7
AI-Generated: codex/claude-opus 5 (xhigh)
Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
---
changes in v6:
- retitled with an image_types_wic prefix, which is now the only file it
touches
- gate WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_DEFAULT with target-arch appends instead of the
removed shared variable; wic-tools keeps the arch-gated DEPENDS it
already had
changes in v5:
- new in v5
---
meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass
index 2dbe89fd899a..cc7cf69edb74 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass
@@ -118,8 +118,10 @@ do_image_wic[depends] += "wic-native:do_populate_sysroot"
do_image_wic[recrdeptask] += "do_deploy"
do_image_wic[deptask] += "do_image_complete"
-WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_DEFAULT = '${@bb.utils.contains_any("BUILD_ARCH", [ 'x86_64', 'i686' ], "syslinux-native", "",d)}'
-WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_DEFAULT += "cdrtools-native"
+WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_DEFAULT = "cdrtools-native"
+WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_DEFAULT:append:x86 = " syslinux-native"
+WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_DEFAULT:append:x86-64 = " syslinux-native"
+WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_DEFAULT:append:x86-x32 = " syslinux-native"
WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_BOOTLOADERS = ""
WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_BOOTLOADERS:aarch64 = "grub-efi systemd-boot"
WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_BOOTLOADERS:arm = "systemd-boot"
--
2.50.0.173.g8b6f19ccfc3a
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-02 2:09 [PATCH v6 0/6] wic: ship the tools it invokes Trevor Woerner
2026-08-02 2:09 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] wic-tools: drop the target bootloader firmware Trevor Woerner
2026-08-02 2:09 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] image_types_wic, wic-tools: drop the obsolete cross-binutils dependency Trevor Woerner
2026-08-02 2:09 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] wic: add runtime dependencies on the tools it invokes Trevor Woerner
2026-08-02 2:09 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] oeqa/selftest/wic: drop dead COREBASE/scripts wic lookup Trevor Woerner
2026-08-02 2:09 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] oeqa/selftest/wic: drop redundant per-test PATH overrides Trevor Woerner
2026-08-02 2:10 ` Trevor Woerner [this message]
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