[poky] kernel.release being regenerated

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2015-02-10 5:51 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Hi Holger,
>
> On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 19:43 +0100, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
>> I have an integration build that at least builds our sysmocom
>> BTS layers against master of Yocto. Our nightly build started
>> to be flaky and fail most of the time building the Linux kernel.
>>
>> We are using a 3.10 LTS kernel for the product and it looks
>> like the kernel.release will be (re)created in the build directory
>> when the uImage is generated but also when "make modules" is
>> called.
>>
>> This means that shared_workdir in my case should be called at
>> a later stage, e.g. after do_compilekernelmodules.
>>
>> Did anyone else see flaky builds?
>
> We've not see any on the yocto project autobuilders and I've not heard
> reports of this from anyone else. I've cc'd Bruce in case he's aware of
> anything and can chime in but the new code is being used in many places,
> including with 3.10 kernels and I've not heard reports.

I haven't seen anything like this either, and I've been doing builds
on a constant loop.

But I'll think on it, and see if anything jumps to mind.

Bruce

>
> The fact the kernel.release is being recreated suggests something in the
> configuration is changing (different environment or commandline
> options?) or that there is a problem in your kernel to do with the
> Makefiles and the dependencies of the kernel.release file.
>
> You might reach a wider audience with questions like this on the yocto
> or openembedded-core mailing lists btw, poky tends to be fairly quiet
> these days although many of us are here too :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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