Thanks,Dan I was able to tackle the above error. I am new to these things.
Can u explain this filegroup with an example, like by defining some
module, that would be really helpful
Thanks in advance
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 10:19 PM 'Dan Willemsen' via Android Building <
android-building@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> We don't allow references outside of the current directory and its
> subdirectories in Soong. We require the directory with the sources to
> opt-into being used by others, either by directly defining the modules, or
> by defining filegroup modules that can be used in the src[s] fields via
> ":myfilegroup" (colon-prefixed module name). This way we can actually let
> you control who uses files within your directory (via visibility), and
> tools like `mma` and `atest` are more likely to be able to handle
> "build/test everything in this directory" properly.
>
> So in this case, either move the Android.bp up to the parent path (which
> usually makes sense for parents, or for apps that have "src" / "jni" /
> "res" dirs, as we do automatically look for files in the same directory for
> some things), or define a filegroup in the parent and use it below (this
> can be more useful if the same file is used by multiple children, though it
> may make more sense to use a static library or something more specific).
>
> That error is that you have multiple definitions of the same module, and
> is unlikely to be related to just moving an Android.bp upwards (unless it
> was below a `soong_namespace {}` definition, but that means you weren't
> using that Android.bp in the first place).
>
> - Dan
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 8:27 AM ____ <akhireguri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hello,
>> say in a Android.bp file srcs:["../../../a.cpp"]
>> I am getting the error Path is outside directory "../../../a.cpp"? How to
>> overcome this?
>>
>> Later I tried declaring Android.bp in to a parent folder so that
>> srcs:["a.cpp"] but then ,
>> FAILED:
>> build/make/core/base_rules.mk:325: error: /gps-noship/cacert_location:
>> MODULE.TARGET.ETC.cacert_location.pem already defined by /prebuilt_HY11.
>> 02:01:45 ckati failed with: exit status 1
>>
>> #### failed to build some targets (02:16 (mm:ss)) ####
>>
>> How to overcome these?
>> Thanks in advance
>>
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