[OE-core] gcc-4.7.inc wrong FILESPATH setting?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Giuseppe Condorelli wrote:

>
>
> 2012/12/14 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
>       On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Marko Katić wrote:
>
>       > On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 17:41 +0100, Giuseppe Condorelli wrote:
>       > > Hi All,
>       > >
>       > > I've seen that, in the given .inc file, the FILESPATH is statically
>       > > set to
>       > >
>       > > FILESPATH = "${FILE_DIRNAME}/gcc-4.7"
>       > >
>       > > This seems to avoid any FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend usage on append file.
>       > > I need to add further patches for gcc-4.7.2 in my own meta layer but
>       > > if I set the FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend as usual
>       > > nothing happens, sources are taken only from the directory set by
>       > > FILESPATH.
>       > > Also I saw this setting was different in the past
>       > >
>       > > FILESPATH = "${@base_set_filespath([ '${FILE_DIRNAME}/gcc-4.7' ], d)}"
>
>   i'm fairly sure i posted on this recently.  base.bbclass
> *explicitly* sets FILESPATH to a set of variations thusly:
>
> FILESPATH = "${@base_set_filespath(["${FILE_DIRNAME}/${BP}", "${FILE_DIRNAME}/${BPN}", "${FILE_DIRNAME}/files"], d)}"
>
> which works fine with the recipes in the underlying oe-core layer.
>
>   however, when you use FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend, you get additional
> directories based on *only* the name you specify.  so if you do:
>
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
>
> are you thinking you should also get all variations of "gcc-4.7"?
> because that's not what's going to happen.
>
> I'm sorry, I've not catched your last sentence. I set (as in the
> past) the FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
> also updating the SRC_URI inside the .bbappend file to use the
> sources available in the gcc directory available in my own layer.  

  did you also set THISDIR just above that?

rday

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