[bitbake-devel] how to store a modification of a bbclass in the poky layer in my own layer.

[Christopher Larson]

Your layer has to be before poky/meta in BBLAYERS, as that determines
BBPATH, which is how bbclasses and config files are found (much like PATH).

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 12:11 PM Davis Roman <davis.roman84 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
>
> I've made a modification in poky/meta/classes/libc-package.bbclass (
> shown below)
>
> However I don't want this change to be stored here long term and
> instead feel that it should live in my project specific layer,
> meta-hon-grip.
>
> After checking with bitbake-layers, I saw that my layer has a higher
> priority than the poky layer so my layer should be checked first ( or
> so I thought)
>
> I copied the modified version of libc-packages.bbclass into
> meta-hon-grip/classes and I restored the version in the poky layer to
> its original state.
>
> After making this change, I found that the modified version in my
> layer is not being used and instead the version in the poky layer is
> the one in play.
>
> I'm trying to figure out what else to try.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Davis
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/libc-package.bbclass
> b/meta/classes/libc-package.bbclass
> index 467d567..72d447a 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/libc-package.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/libc-package.bbclass
> @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ python package_do_split_gconvs () {
>                  bb.error("locale_arch_options not found for
> target_arch=" + target_arch)
>                  raise bb.build.FuncFailed("unknown arch:" +
> target_arch + " for locale_arch_options")
>
> -            localedef_opts += " --force --old-style --no-archive
> --prefix=%s \
> +            localedef_opts += " --force --no-archive --prefix=%s \
>                  --inputfile=%s/%s/i18n/locales/%s --charmap=%s %s/%s" \
>                  % (treedir, treedir, datadir, locale, encoding,
> outputpath, name)
>
> @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ python package_do_split_gconvs () {
>                  (path, i18npath, gconvpath, localedef_opts)
>          else: # earlier slower qemu way
>              qemu = qemu_target_binary(d)
> -            localedef_opts = "--force --old-style --no-archive
> --prefix=%s \
> +            localedef_opts = "--force --no-archive --prefix=%s \
>                  --inputfile=%s/i18n/locales/%s --charmap=%s %s" \
>                  % (treedir, datadir, locale, encoding, name)
> --
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Christopher Larson
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Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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