Re: [meta-freescale] Cannot run "devtool mofidy linux-fslc" in Dunfell branch

["Andrey Zhizhikin" <andrey.z@gmail.com>]

Hello Sam,

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 4:00 PM Sam Van Den Berge
<sam.van.den.berge@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:13 PM Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.z@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Sam,
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:05 PM Sam Van Den Berge
> > <sam.van.den.berge@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 11:10 PM Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.z@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello Sam,
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 9:35 PM <sam.van.den.berge@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I also have the exact same error with linux-fslc 5.10.12.
> > > >
> > > > Can you try to change SRCBRANCH in
> > > > recipes-kernel/linux/linux-fslc_5.10.bb to KBRANCH? I've just tried it
> > > > out and it should solve the problem.
> > > >
> > > > I have a patch for this and made a PR to address the issue, please
> > > > have a look at https://github.com/Freescale/meta-freescale/pull/652. I
> > > > would appreciate if you test it locally on your end and report here if
> > > > that solves your devtool errors.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately it's not solved in my case. Depending on the path that
> > > gets executed in
> > > devtool/standard.py, I do think your patch does solve the issue in some cases.
> >
> > Since linux-fslc[-imx] recipes are inheriting kernel-yocto class, it
> > is needed that the KBRANCH to be defined as it can be seen in
> > scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py on line 822.
> >
> > Which particular error do you see when you apply the patch from PR?
> > Do you have any appends to the kernel recipe?
> > Which machine are you trying to build and which distro?
> >
>
> We have one small append to the kernel recipe but it's something with a dts. No
> additional kernel configs or whatsoever. Machine is imx6q and distro
> is an internal one.
>
> I modified devtool a little bit so that it prints the variables from
> line 822 and this is
> what I get:
>
> kernelVersion=5.10.12
> kbranch=5.10.x+fslc
> staging_kerVer=
> staging_kbranch=
>
> so in my case the if statement at line 822 is not True. I think this
> is because we
> do not clone the git repo but have extracted a tar.gz and we use that
> as the source.
> Not sure though...

Can you try to use linux-fslc from the git repository instead of
tarball? If it is proven to be working - then the problem might be in
the implementation of devtool itself and should be taken upstream for
further investigations.

>
> As a result of the False if-statement,  _extract_source will be executed.
> Then at line 607 it will start executing the configure task. At the
> point the execution
> reaches the do_preconfigure() from fsl-kernel-localversion.bbclass
> while the file
> defconfig is not in ${WORKDIR} but in the ${WORKDIR}/../oe-local-files folder.
> As a result, the following command in the do_preconfigure() will fail:
>
> sed -e "${CONF_SED_SCRIPT}" < '${WORKDIR}/defconfig' >> '${B}/.config'
>
> This is the error I get:
> DEBUG: Executing shell function do_preconfigure
> ..../linux-fslc/5.10.12+gitAUTOINC+ed3accb10c-r0/devtooltmp-otiy_odb/temp/run.do_preconfigure.3336084:
> line 160: ...../devtooltmp-otiy_odb/workdir/defconfig: No such file or directory
> WARNING: ..../devtooltmp-otiy_odb/temp/run.do_preconfigure.3336084:160
> exit 1 from
> 'sed -e "${CONF_SED_SCRIPT}" <
> ..../devtooltmp-otiy_odb/workdir/defconfig' >>
> '....devtooltmp-otiy_odb/workdir/build/.config''
>
> The problem really is that devtool copies Non-patch files to an
> oe-local-files folder,
> in contrast to just running bitbake which puts both patch and
> non-patch files in the
> ${WORKDIR}.
>
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Andrey.



-- 
Regards,
Andrey.