[yocto] Migration from 1.7.1 to 1.8 - kernel-abiversion missing

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2015-05-12 10:20 AM, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Bruce Ashfield
> <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-05-11 02:10 PM, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Bruce Ashfield
>>> <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It is plausible. But in theory, linux-dummy should still provide
>>>> what you need (but since it doesn't build anything, there is
>>>> no abi .. and no modules can be built against it) .. so the
>>>> error isn't graceful.
>>>>
>>>> Bruce
>>>
>>>
>>> I can confirm this same problem is happening to me.  I just updated
>>> one of my builds from 1.7 to 1.8 and am also getting my rootfs to fail
>>> due to no abi kernel version:
>>
>>
>> We still have a race condition in the 1.8 branch for the population
>> of the build-artifacts directory.
>>
>> If modules start building, they'll race against the population of the
>> abiversion, and you may see that message.
>>
>> There's a proposed patch for master, but I don't think it is in
>> fido yet.
>>
>> Bruce
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> I did some searches and looks like there are a number of 'race'
> condition fixes but it wasn't obvious which one I may need.  Is it
> this one:
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=02d0a003d603266114512160b209876199241e98
>

That's the one that should make sure that the shared workdir
(Which has the abiversion) is in place before building any modules.

I can't say that it is exactly your issue, but it is the change
I was thinking of.

Bruce

> Regards,
>
> Brian
>