Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] devtool: Fix source extraction for gcc shared source

["Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 19:05 +0100, Tomasz Dziendzielski wrote:
> > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-shared-source.inc
> > > b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-shared-source.inc
> > > index aac4b49313..9ef80f2074 100644
> > > --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-shared-source.inc
> > > +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-shared-source.inc
> > > @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ do_fetch() {
> > >       :
> > >  }
> > >  do_fetch[noexec] = "1"
> > > +do_patch[noexec] = "1"
> > >  deltask do_unpack
> > >  deltask do_patch
> 
> > This is in itself a little odd. The "deltask do_patch" line deletes
> > the
> > task, so there is no task to set as noexec?
> 
> This was added because from the devtool script I couldn't find
> another way to determine if the task is run or not. If I add
> "do_patch[noexec]" (which logically doesn't change anything) even if
> task is deleted, I can check "if 'noexec' in d.getVarFlags(task,
> False)" and tell devtool to execute do_configure task dependencies
> (to prepare gcc sources).

Try checking if the "task" flag is set for "do_patch"?

Cheers,

Richard