[yocto] How to create lighttpd with minimal configure options?

2018-02-02 Thread Frank Smith
I want to create a minimal lighttpd package as small as possible. Therefore I created a bbappendfile with extra configure flags. As follows. But the changes seems to not have any effect at all. The size of my minimal rootfs.jffs2 increases from 3MB to 5.1MB.   meta-iris/recipes-extended/lighttpd

[yocto] KBUILD_DEFCONFIG_KMACHINE ?= defconfig_file does not work as expected

2018-01-30 Thread Frank Smith
KBUILD_DEFCONFIG_KMACHINE ?= defconfig_file does not work as I expected. First lesson I learned: defconfig != .config A new defconfig file below arch/arm/config/xy_defconfig created by make savedefconfig is not equal to the .config file. I assume the linux kernel expand some symbols and create t