[OE-core] adding meta-intel layers breaks parsing, was Re: Updating u-boot for oe-core or meta-yocto

[Phil Blundell]

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 09:28 -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> I just finished building all of the above successfully using the latest
> (as of yesterday) poky/master and meta-intel/master.
> 
> Not sure why you're seeing parsing errors, none here...

The way meta-intel is using FILESEXTRAPATHS does look a bit dubious to
me.  Your kernel .bbappend files seem to be doing:

FILESEXTRAPATHS := "${FILESEXTRAPATHS}:${THISDIR}/${PN}"

which seems wrong for two reasons: firstly it will lose if
FILESEXTRAPATHS wasn't previously set (in which case you'll get a
circular reference within the value, since bitbake won't expand that
part of the rvalue during the assignment); and secondly, as far as I can
tell from looking at utils.bbclass, FILESEXTRAPATHS isn't actually
supposed to be colon separated in the first place.

(Also, as a tangential matter, this FILESEXTRAPATHS setting isn't going
to be producing any useful effect since none of the meta-intel layers
actually have any files in their recipes-kernel/linux directory.)

p.