[bitbake-devel] Conflict between BBCLASSEXTEND and named recipes.

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:09:18AM -0700, Jeremy Puhlman wrote:
> There seems to be a bug with available providers when a recipe file
> provides the same name as an extended recipe. The extended version of
> the recipe does not seem to be available at all.
> 
> Example:
> 
> If zlib_1.2.6.bb exists in a layer, with BBCLASSEXTEND="native
> zlib-nativesdk" defined, and zlib-native_1.2.5.bb exists, the version
> 1.2.6 of zlib-native is not selectable at all.
> 
> 
> bitbake -s | grep zlib
> zlib                                                :1.2.6-r0
> zlib-native                                         :1.2.5-r0
> zlib-nativesdk                                      :1.2.6-r0
> 
> Even with PREFERRED_PROVIDER_zlib-naitve = 1.2.6 the results are the
> same. I have been poking around the parser, but really haven't made any
> progress, figured I would poke the list.

I don't have a solution, but I can confirm that this was a known issue all the 
way back when BBCLASSEXTEND got introduced in Classic OE. The workaround was 
to remove or mask the actual *-native.bb recipes.

-- 
Denys