From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: Andrei Dinu <andrei.adrianx.dinu@intel.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: is there a variable where the kernel version is stored?
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:39:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2661953.CXEvbvU0xy@helios> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F26B86.5020309@intel.com>
Hi Andrei,
On Friday 26 July 2013 15:28:54 Andrei Dinu wrote:
> I'm having a problem trying to run Bastille. Seems like the kernel
> version has changed from 3.8.11 to 3.8.13 and
> in order to run Bastille, i need to patch a file used by the tool to
> check the version of the system. It was previously
> patched with linux-yocto-3.8.11 version, but now it has changed to
> linux-yocto-3.8.13 and the tool doesn't work
> because it doesn't identify the right version of the kernel.
>
> Is there a way to find out the kernel version at build time so i can
> replace it dynamically in that specific file?
Hmm, so if you add a DEPENDS on virtual/kernel you should be able to rely on
the contents of ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR}/kernel-abiversion - have a look at what
meta/classes/module.bbclass does with this.
Cheers,
Paul
--
Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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2013-07-26 12:28 is there a variable where the kernel version is stored? Andrei Dinu
2013-07-26 12:39 ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
2013-07-26 12:42 ` Andrei Dinu
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