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

[Tom Zanussi]

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 07:38 -0700, Phil Blundell wrote:
> 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.)
> 

Yeah, that was a recent change attempting to fix a different problem.  I
need to take a better look at both...

Thanks for your detailed comments.

Tom

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