[yocto] How do I patch binutils for the SDK

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 06:23:03AM +0000, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> I found a bug in the GNU assembler that makes it produce corrupted
> listings, reported it on sourceware bugzilla, and it has been fixed. Now
> I'd like to take those small patches and apply them to the assembler that
> winds up in the SDK. The patches are shown here:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=39865a7f420ab4c
> a4dec6ed27339618a5d5dc366
> 
> The only recipe I found in Pyro that seemed appropriate was
> meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-crosssdk_2.28.bb, so I created a
> binutils-crosssdk_%.bbappend in my layer with a FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend
> and a SRC_URI listing the patches, which I put into a binutils
> subdirectory.
> 
> When I ran the populate_sdk task, the patches failed because they didn't
> find the source files, which are supposed to be in a subdirectory called
> gas.
> 
> So I'm wondering, is this the wrong recipe? Does something else build gas?
> Or am I just doing this wrong? The workings of the build system are pretty
> opaque and mysterious.

You can apply the patch to all binutils variants, its fine. Send a patch or if you
want, file a ticket in bugzilla and we will take care.

> 
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> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco at ix.netcom.com
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