Re: [PATCH 1/6] linux-yocto-dev: conditionally add coreutils to depends

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

On Mon, 2024-10-14 at 09:45 -0400, bruce.ashfield@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
> 
> 6.11+ uses truncate as part of the build. While truncate has been
> added to HOSTTOOLS in oe-core master, it still is possible to
> build a kernel recipe newer than 6.11+ on a release that doesn't
> have the HOSTTOOLS tweak.
> 
> We can test for truncate and condtionally add the dependency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
> index 292897ce43..752d108bd8 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
> @@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[dt-validation] = ",,python3-dtschema-native"
>  # we need the wrappers if validation isn't in the packageconfig
>  DEPENDS += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'dt-validation', '', 'python3-dtschema-wrapper-native', d)}"
>  
> +# 6.11+ uses truncate in the build, so we need to either have it in host tools, or
> +# build it ourselves
> +DEPENDS += "${@bb.utils.contains('HOSTTOOLS', 'truncate', '', 'coreutils-native', d)}"
> +
>  COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "^(qemuarmv5|qemuarm|qemuarm64|qemux86|qemuppc|qemumips|qemumips64|qemux86-64|qemuriscv32|qemuriscv64|qemuloongarch64)$"
>  
>  KERNEL_DEVICETREE:qemuarmv5 = "arm/versatile-pb.dtb"

This is for master so truncate should always be in HOSTTOOLS? I don't
understand why we need this there?

Cheers,

Richard