On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 21:24 +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > On 07/18/10 18:06, Chris Larson wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Detlef Vollmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 07/18/10 17:13, Chris Larson wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Detlef Vollmann <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 07/16/10 16:25, Richard Purdie wrote: > >>>> For the specific case of paths, I have wondered if there would be a way > >>>>> to leverage help from bitbake in creating a sane set of search paths but > >>>>> I'm still thinking about that. This extension is good enough in its own > >>>>> right in my opinion to be worthwhile. > >>>>> > >>>>> This might be true, but solving the general path problem would be > >>>> much more useful. > >>>> If you want to add a new version of e.g. gcc in your ovlerlay, > >>>> you have to pull over the whole gcc directory with all its .inc classes. > >>>> This can't be solved by .bbapend, or am I missing something? > >>>> > >>> > >>> You can handle that today by adding to FILESPATHBASE. All file:// files > >>> from SRC_URI are located using FILESPATH, which is constructed from > >>> FILESPATHBASE, FILESPATHPKG, and OVERRIDES. > >>> > >> AFAIK this doen't work for include/require :-( > > > > > > Don't copy the recipe at all, use .bbappend instead, and you won't need to > > have the .inc in a different collection from the recipe itself. > In that case I didn't understand .bbappend. > If I have a recipe gcc_4.3.2.bb in e.g. oe-stable/recipes/gcc, but in > that directory is no gcc_4.4.4.bb, and I put gcc_4.4.4.bbappend into > myproject/recipes/gcc, that would probably given an error like > 'no .bb file to append'. > At least that's how I understood .bbappend. > > > Alternatively, you can adjust BBPATH to also include the other collection > > based paths + os.path.dirname('${FILE_DIRNAME}') or so. > I'd be very interested to find a way so that a 'require gcc.inc' in > myproject/recipes/gcc_4.4.4.bb would find oe-stable/recipes/gcc/gcc.inc. > So far I failed.
Does something like "require recipes/gcc/gcc.inc" not just work already as it will search BBPATH... Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Bitbake-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-dev
