[OE-core] Machine specific sysroot issue

[Richard Purdie]

On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 20:50 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> I've brought over the Opie recipes from OE in preparation for creating a 
> separate layer, and after making a few changes everything compiles OK; however 
> I'm finding that the change to machine-specific sysroots is causing some 
> problems.
> 
> libopie2, a non-machine specific package, among other things installs a file 
> called include.pro into ${OPIEDIR}, which is configured to be 
> ${STAGING_DIR_HOST}. In OE-classic ${STAGING_DIR_HOST} is not machine-specific, 
> so if you build libopie2 for machine A then build some other package that 
> needs include.pro for machine B, then everything is fine. In the OE-core case 
> with machine-specific sysroots it's looking for the file in the sysroot for the 
> current machine, which if you've been building for several different machines 
> may not be where it has actually been installed.
> 
> What's the correct way to fix this? Is libopie2 now installing this file in the 
> wrong place?

It sounds like its being installed to the right location but that opie
isn't looking for it in the right place later.

How does opie know where to look for the file?

Cheers,

Richard