On 01/12/2012 12:39 PM, Tom Zanussi wrote: > On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 19:03 -0800, Bruce Ashfield wrote: >> On 11-12-16 8:34 PM, Darren Hart wrote: >>> On 12/16/2011 05:22 PM, Bodke, Kishore K wrote: >>>> >>>> With the attached Darren's kern-tools-native_git.bb file, build was >>>> success. >>>> Thanks >>>> Kishore. >>> >>> See the patch I just sent:kern-tools: Include do_install() in bbappend >>> for what I believe to be the solution. >>> >>> I suppose the proper solution would be to version the kern-tools-native >>> recipe when major things like that change, but given the nature of this >>> layer, I think the above patch is adequate. >> >> That's not the solution to either problem (well, yes, it's a solution >> and there's nothing inherently wrong with it, it's just covering up >> the underlying issue) which is a layer dependency issue. In this case, >> meta-kernel-dev tracks the master branch of poky, not any other branch >> or version. And that is implicit, not explicit, hence why it got into >> this tangle. >> >> We could simply branch meta-kernel-dev and have an edison branch for >> it, not modify the appends to contain something that will just break >> again in the future. >> >> But meta-kernel-dev isn't officially used by much at the moment, so >> I'm not convinced that branching it is worth the trouble (but I can >> be convinced otherwise). I'd rather either just remove the kern-tools >> bbappend (I'm probably the only one on the planet that really needs >> it), or just trust people to know what they are up to with the >> meta-kernel-dev layer. >> > > Revisiting this - meta-kernel-dev is used in the documentation, and > Scott has now run up against this when testing and updating it. Since > the documentation does use edison, and the walk-throughs have the user > check out edison branches of both poky and the BSP layers, it would be > consistent to have the user also do the same for meta-kernel-dev. > Probably just an edison branch with the kern-tools bbappend removed > would work fine... > > Tom
Works for me. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
