[OE-core] require *.bbappend

[Andreas Müller]

On Monday, December 19, 2011 07:25:29 PM Joshua Lock wrote:
> On 16/12/11 17:58, Andreas Müller wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I have the following use case:
> > 
> > In my working layer I would like to have a recipe adding functionality to
> > a recipe from another layer (e.g systemd-image.bb from angstrom) with a
> > different name ( -> no bbappend ). How about
> > 
> > * create systemd-image.bbapend with just 'FILESEXTRAPATHS :=
> > "${THISDIR}"' to get it into the scope of my layer
> > * create a recipe  which contains 'require systemd-image.bbappend'
> > 
> > Currently parser complains that systemd-image.bbappend is not a BitBake
> > file.
> 
> I think this should work and the issue you're seeing is that require
> wants a relative PATH from BBPATH.
> 
> i.e. require recipes-images/angstrom/systemd-image.bb
> 
AArgh - thanks for helping me out of quirks by such simple solution :)

Andreas