Re: [Gumstix-users] question: how do I rebuild the kernel without -c clean and another bitbake?

[Dave H. <dhy...@gm...>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Don Quixote de la Mancha
<qu...@du...> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:50 AM, rcorley <rc...@ae...> wrote:
>> The bitbake -c compile -f virtual/kernel command worked as I hoped.
>>
>> I followed it with a bitbake -c build -f virtual/kernel to build the image
>> file
>>
>> Too bad I had to post this one to figure it out.  I took a bit of time
>> online to see if this information was out there on the web.  No salient
>> results from a search on "bitbake -c build".
>>
>> Seems like this little tidbit is important (it is to me, at least).
>
> Please do add it to the Wiki.  It won't help you but it would help
> some other poor sot in the future:

So I recently discovered the same thing.

This page on the wiki:
http://wiki.gumstix.org/index.php?title=Kernel_Reconfiguration

has a link to this page, which is where I saw the appropriate bitbake
instructions to use.
http://blogs.elphel.com/2009/12/openembeddedangstrom-kernel-workflow/

So adding the information to that page seems like a reasonable place (to me).

The Kernel Reconfiguration page mentions doing a bitbake -c clean
virtual/kernel which is typically overkill, even for a modified kernel
configuration (altough there are probably esoteric occasions where it
is warranted). Having both options presented seems like a reasonable
thing.

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Dave Hylands
Shuswap, BC, Canada
http://www.davehylands.com