[yocto] sysroot question

[Gary Thomas]

On 2017-02-09 08:49, Anders Darander wrote:
> * Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> [170209 05:25]:
>> On 2017-02-08 20:36, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>> I think the problem is that the task that prepares the sysroot
>>> (do_prepare_recipe_sysroot) isn't a dependency of your task. module.bbclass
>>> uses this:
>
>>> addtask make_scripts after do_prepare_recipe_sysroot before do_compile
>
>>> BTW you say you patterned your recipe after the skeleton example, except
>>> hello-mod at least currently inherits module rather than module-base + kernel-
>>> module-split - is there a compelling reason not to inherit module?
>
>> I may have been mistaken about the original source - it looks like I
>> used a similar module strategy from meta-freescale.  I did [just now]
>> try using "inherit module" and the build dies a horrible death with
>> this error
>> | make: *** No rule to make target 'modules_install'.  Stop.
>
> Well, that is simple to solve. module.bbclasses sets
>
> MODULES_INSTALL_TARGET ?= "modules_install"
>
> just override that with your own install target. (Or fix the module's
> Makefile). The last option is to simply override do_install in your
> recipe.

I already override do_install(), so that's not enough.

>
>> I changed my [task] dependencies to match what you've quoted and everything
>> works as before.  !Thanks!
>
> I'd still recommend doing as little as possible in each recipe, and
> leverage the standard modules.

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