[yocto] Kernel build woes

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-01-21 09:08, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 15-01-21 11:02 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> Since the recent changes in how the kernel is built, some useful
>> workflows have been broken.  In particular when working on a
>> kernel, I use this sequence quite a lot:
>>    $ bitbake virtual/kernel
>>    $ bitbake virtual/kernel -c devshell
>>    ... make some tweaks, add a test patch, etc
>>    $ bitbake virtual/kernel -C compile
>>
>> Trying this with a quite recent master
>> (4e20211090d2b193250edaa64f84e355a1c31fe5)
>> I get this error on the compile step:
>>
>> ERROR: Function failed: do_compile (log file is located at
>> /home/local/qemuarm_2015-01-09/tmp/work/qemuarm-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto/3.14.24+gitAUTOINC+a227f20eff_6166316d47-r0/temp/log.do_compile.29205)
>>
>> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
>> /home/local/qemuarm_2015-01-09/tmp/work/qemuarm-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto/3.14.24+gitAUTOINC+a227f20eff_6166316d47-r0/temp/log.do_compile.29205
>>
>> Log data follows:
>> | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_compile
>> | NOTE: make -j 4 zImage CC=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc
>> -mno-thumb-interwork -marm LD=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd
>> |   CHK     include/config/kernel.release
>> |   Using
>> /home/local/qemuarm_2015-01-09/tmp/sysroots/qemuarm/usr/src/kernel as
>> source for kernel
>> |   /home/local/qemuarm_2015-01-09/tmp/sysroots/qemuarm/usr/src/kernel
>> is not clean, please run 'make mrproper'
>> |   in the
>> '/home/local/qemuarm_2015-01-09/tmp/sysroots/qemuarm/usr/src/kernel'
>> directory.
>> | make[2]: *** [prepare3] Error 1
>> | make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
>> | make: *** [all] Error 2
>> | ERROR: oe_runmake failed
>> | WARNING:
>> /home/local/qemuarm_2015-01-09/tmp/work/qemuarm-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto/3.14.24+gitAUTOINC+a227f20eff_6166316d47-r0/temp/run.do_compile.29205:1
>> exit 1 from
>> |   exit 1
>> | ERROR: Function failed: do_compile (log file is located at
>> /home/local/qemuarm_2015-01-09/tmp/work/qemuarm-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto/3.14.24+gitAUTOINC+a227f20eff_6166316d47-r0/temp/log.do_compile.29205)
>>
>> ERROR: Task 10
>> (/home/local/poky-cutting-edge/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.14.bb,
>> do_compile) failed with exit code '1'
>>
>> Note: this is not unique to the linux-yocto recipe, I've seen
>> the same error when using some kernel recipes from meta-fsl-arm*,
>> e.g. linux-boundary, as well as some local recipes which inherit
>> kernel.bbclass
>>
>> Should I file this as a bug?
>
> This has already been addressed in master as of Monday. The kernel is
> in tmp/build/work-shared/, and can handle this sort of workflow.
>
> Bruce
>

Indeed, it works again after updating to the latest master.

Thanks

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