Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] module.bbclass: add HOSTCC for out-of-tree modules

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

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:53 AM Bruce Ashfield via
lists.openembedded.org
<bruce.ashfield=gmail.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:47 AM Vyacheslav Yurkov <uvv.mail@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 01.10.2020 16:36, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > > We already ran into this with the main kernel flags, and we don't want
> > > to duplicate them here.
> > >
> > > Why aren't what we have in kernel.bbclass working in your scenario ?
> > >
> > > Bruce
> > >
> > Because kernel.bbclass is not pulled in into the environment of
> > out-of-tree module recipe. Should it be?
> > This can easily be checked when you do 'bitbake hello-mod -c devshell'
> > and examine $EXTRA_OEMAKE variable.
>
> Yes, it should be.
>
> We build out of tree modules in each autobuilder test run, so it is
> functional for the most part. I'd be interested to see the reproducing
> kernel module and build steps, so they can be built into the tests to
> catch this.

And by that, I mean more than the warnings about ORC, etc. Since those
have been popping up for some time.

I'm not saying we shouldn't be fixing those, I'm just wondering if
this is an actual build failure, versus the ones we know about.

(and either way, it doesn't change the way we fix it, just that we can
test it better).

Bruce

>
> But we absolutely do not want to duplicate those flags into this class.
>
> So with a reproducer, we can perhaps shuffle things around and make
> sure that both this new case and the old ones continue to work.
>
> Bruce
>
> >
> > Vyacheslav
>
>
>
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