On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 11:03 PM Bruce Ashfield via lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 6:54 PM Richard Purdie > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2023-04-19 at 23:34 +0100, Jose Quaresma wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Not related with the previous discussion but just for > > > your information. > > > The rm_work.bbclass has an exception for the kernel recipes [1]. > > > So I don't understand why we can't do the same for the make-mod- > > > scripts > > > who is the twin brother of all these kernel recipes. > > > > > > [1] > > > https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/classes/rm_work.bbclass#n168 > > > > Ideally we wouldn't be doing this for the kernel recipes. > > > > There is also a big difference to that and the proposed patch. The > > proposed patch was preserving a specific directory rather than an > > entire recipe. Removing the task stamps but leaving a small piece of > > WORKDIR is quite different to preserving WORKDIR and STAMPS for a > > specific recipe. The former is not tested and will break things. The > > latter is better tolerated by bitbake. > > Agreed. > > Plus, I am working on this now. > > I have static linking of the scripts/tools working, but what I haven't > figured out is how to do that without patching the Makefiles. >
It turned out to be quite the battle to get older kernels what was required for static linking of the tools. Attached is my WIP patch. I'm out of the office early next week, but will revisit it once I'm back. Bruce > Next up will be some rpath trickery. > > Bruce > > > > > So yes, we could do the same. I'm sure there will be other recipes > > people want to preserve for other reasons. Where do we draw the line? > > We could preserve everything and drop rm_work, then we wouldn't have > > these problems? :) > > > > Cheers, > > > > Richard > > > > -- > - Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await > thee at its end > - "Use the force Harry" - Gandalf, Star Trek II > > > -- - Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end - "Use the force Harry" - Gandalf, Star Trek II
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