Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] make-mod-scripts: preserve libraries when rm_work is used

[Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 6:54 PM Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2023-04-19 at 23:34 +0100, Jose Quaresma wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Not related with the previous discussion but just for
> > your information.
> > The rm_work.bbclass has an exception for the kernel recipes [1].
> > So I don't understand why we can't do the same for the make-mod-
> > scripts
> > who is the twin brother of all these kernel recipes.
> >
> > [1]
> > https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/classes/rm_work.bbclass#n168
>
> Ideally we wouldn't be doing this for the kernel recipes.
>
> There is also a big difference to that and the proposed patch. The
> proposed patch was preserving a specific directory rather than an
> entire recipe. Removing the task stamps but leaving a small piece of
> WORKDIR is quite different to preserving WORKDIR and STAMPS for a
> specific recipe. The former is not tested and will break things. The
> latter is better tolerated by bitbake.

Agreed.

Plus, I am working on this now.

I have static linking of the scripts/tools working, but what I haven't
figured out is how to do that without patching the Makefiles.

Next up will be some rpath trickery.

Bruce

>
> So yes, we could do the same. I'm sure there will be other recipes
> people want to preserve for other reasons. Where do we draw the line?
> We could preserve everything and drop rm_work, then we wouldn't have
> these problems? :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard



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