[yocto] compiling out-of-tree modules with master

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 15-12-01 11:57 AM, Stuart Weaver wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I’m currently merging my Yocto repo up to master (from Daisy). I’m
> having problems compiling some of the out-of-tree modules that we have
> which I’ve tracked down to the Makefiles looking for:
>
> include/generated/autoconf.h
>
> include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
>
> Now I originally had to heavily patch these Makefiles to include
> variables like KERNEL_SRC and KERNEL_VERSION as they were just calling
> shell commands (e.g. echo uname –a). However the KERNEL_SRC is pointing
> to the new location of the source in ‘work-shared’ where none of the
> generated .h files are.


STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR is what you want. That's where all the artifacts
of the build required for external module builds are placed.

Bruce

>
> Could someone inform on the differences in workflow and which variables
> I should be using to point to the build source of the kernel (i.e.
> work/corei7-intel-common-poky-linux/linuux-yocto/3.19.5…./linux-corei7-64-intel-common-standard-build)?
>
> *Best Regards,*
>
> *Stuart*
>
>
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