On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 3:11 PM Andre McCurdy <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 12:46 PM Michael Gloff <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 2:11 PM Richard Purdie <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, 2020-09-12 at 11:48 -0500, Michael Gloff wrote:
> >> > In order for the VERSION variable to be set, the
> >> > top level Makefile should be used, which only
> >> > builds the code in /src anyway.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Michael Gloff <[email protected]>
> >> > ---
> >> >  meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.97.bb | 1 -
> >> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.97.bb
> >> > b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.97.bb
> >> > index 80ab9d70e7..98916f7f19 100644
> >> > --- a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.97.bb
> >> > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.97.bb
> >> > @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ SRC_URI =
> >> > "${SAVANNAH_GNU_MIRROR}/sysvinit/sysvinit-${PV}.tar.xz \
> >> >  SRC_URI[sha256sum] =
> >> > "2d5996857519bfd8634d2e1debabb3238fb38440f65fbfdc46420ee8bdf25110"
> >> >
> >> >  S = "${WORKDIR}/sysvinit-${PV}"
> >> > -B = "${S}/src"
> >> >
> >> >  inherit update-alternatives features_check
> >> >  DEPENDS_append = " update-rc.d-native base-passwd virtual/crypt"
> >>
> >> I don't understand what you're saying. Why do we need the VERSION
> >> variable to be set? Does sysvinit not support a separate build
> >> directory?
> >>
> >> Can you rewrite the commit message so that someone who hasn't looked at
> >> the code can understand what the problem is we're fixing, why its a
> >> problem and why this is the correct solution.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Richard
> >
> > This issue is seeing no version on boot up since the switch from 2.88:
> > INIT: version  booting
> > instead of:
> > INIT: version 2.96 booting
> > with this change.
> >
> > The VERSION variable that is used for all of the binaries of sysvinit is
> defined in the top level Makefile.
> >
> > VERSION=$(shell sed -rn '1s/.*[[:blank:]]\((.*)\)[[:blank:]].*/\1/p'
> doc/Changelog)
> >
> > I'm not sure about the separate build directory. Any tips?
> > Thanks,
>
> A separate build directory typically only applies for components which
> build with autotools, cmake, etc. For components such as this one
> which build with handwritten Makefiles the default is to build in the
> source directory.
>
> Anyway, the patch looks fine. Key point is that you want to run make
> in the top level source directory rather than the "src" subdirectory
> to ensure that variables set by the top level Makefile are correctly
> defined.
>
> Thanks Andre,
I kind of thought we couldn't do a separate build directory, but wanted to
try.
I'll amend the  commit message

> > Michael
> >
> > 
>
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