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Hi,

I put them back and there is no problem if they are stripped. However, 
other versions of Poky may lead to QA error.


On 2017-09-13 15:39, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 09/13/2017 09:07 AM, György Kövesdi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have poky at git hash 5686f4e1fe5229705b8c7d35895aa03827796d13 and 
>> I build for ARMv7.
>>
>> I wanted to build my kernel module using the SDK generated this way:
>>
>>      bitbake <my-image> -c populate_sdk
>>
>> and the recipe kernel-devsrc is added to my sdk.
>>
>> I found that the recipe meta/recipes-kernel/linux/kernel-devsrc.bb 
>> puts everything in the kernel source tree, except the following 
>> executables:
>>
>>      scripts/recordmcount
>>      scripts/basic/fixdep
>>      scripts/mod/modpost
>>
>> These would be essential for module development.
>>
>> In the recipe kernel-devsrc.bb the following line
>>
>>      oe_runmake -C $kerneldir CC="${KERNEL_CC}" LD="${KERNEL_LD}" 
>> clean _mrproper_scripts
>>
>> removes everything, including the executables mentioned above.
>> IMHO it would be enough to run:
>>
>>      oe_runmake -C $kerneldir CC="${KERNEL_CC}" LD="${KERNEL_LD}" clean
>>
>> In this case the module development works properly with the resulting 
>> SDK.
>> Is the 'mrproper' really necessary? IMHO the 'clean' is enough there, 
>> because 'mrproper' removes too much.
>
> The executables can't be packaged with the actual kernel source, since
> we run into QA errors due to architecture mismatches.
>
> Variants of this issue/concern have been around for several years now,
> but since there are workarounds of simply re-creating the scripts
> after SDK install, it hasn't been fixed to work out of the box.
>
> So unfortunately, it isn't as simple as just leaving those scripts in
> the devsrc package.
>
> A couple of bugs that track work on this are:
>
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4389
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6630
>
> Bruce
>
>>
>> Regards
>> Gyorgy Kovesdi
>>
>>
>
>