[yocto] "unused"/uninstalled tools in yocto-kernel-tools?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Bruce Ashfield wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >   continuing my voyage of discovery through the various yocto kernel
> > tools, and i see the Makefile which lists the kern_tools:
> >
> > kern_tools_LIST = kgit kgit-init kgit-meta \
> >                   kgit-checkpoint kgit-clean \
> >                   kconf_check configme \
> >                   createme updateme patchme get_defconfig scc \
> >                   pre_config merge_config.sh spp kgit-s2q
> >
> > but i also notice that there are a few utilities in the tools/
> > directory not in that list:
> >
> >  * kgit-config-cleaner
> >  * kgit-feature
> >  * kgit-publish
> >  * kgit-scc
> >
> > how do those utilities come into play? nothing else in that directory
> > seems to refer to them. how and where are they used?
>
> They are used during the creation / generation of a tree from scratch. Which
> isn't part of the build process.

  ah, thanks, i'll make a note of that.

rday


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