Compiling a linux-yocto-custom.bbappend with the defconfig from the stock linux-yocto for qemux86 results in the following: ERROR: QA Issue: Architecture did not match (3 to 62) on /work/qemux86-poky-linux/linux-yocto-custom-3.4+git1+76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc-r1/packages-split/kernel-dev/usr/src/kernel/arch/x86/tools/relocs ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: kernel-dev path /work/qemux86-poky-linux/linux-yocto-custom-3.4+git1+76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc-r1/packages-split/kernel-dev/usr/src/kernel/arch/x86/tools/.debug/relocs ERROR: QA Issue: Architecture did not match (3 to 62) on /work/qemux86-poky-linux/linux-yocto-custom-3.4+git1+76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc-r1/packages-split/kernel-dev/usr/src/kernel/arch/x86/tools/.debug/relocs ERROR: QA run found fatal errors. Please consider fixing them. ERROR: Function failed: do_package_qa ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /build/poky/master/qemux86_custom/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/linux-yocto-custom-3.4+git1+76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc-r1/temp/log.do_package.26034 NOTE: package linux-yocto-custom-3.4+git1+76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc-r1: task do_package: Failed ERROR: Task 158 (/home/dvhart/source/poky/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom.bb, do_package) failed with exit code '1' This does not occur with linux-yocto, just linux-yocto-custom. This file is indeed x86_64: /work/qemux86-poky-linux/linux-yocto-custom-3.4+git1+76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc-r1/packages-split/kernel-dev/usr/src/kernel/arch/x86/tools/relocs but does not exist in linux-yocto, there are no binaries in the tools dir.
It's a bug in the Linux kernel "make clean". https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/27/221 I'll investigate the best way to address on Monday morning.
This appears to simply be a matter of choosing sources for linux-yocto-custom that do not contain this particular bug. As linux-yocto-custom is not meant to be built as is without modification, I'm closing this as NOTABUG.
Setting this to verified