[OE-core] SDK extract errors on master

[Jack Mitchell]

On 06/07/15 12:35, Jack Mitchell wrote:
> On 03/07/15 15:56, Jack Mitchell wrote:
>> Built an SDK today on 7eb0abc5f4d971d9a511c93cfb2eb52b72e6f228 and 
>> when I tried to install it I got the following error:
>>
>> Setting it up...ls: cannot access 
>> /home/jack/Work/build/openembedded/sdk/1/x86_64/environment-setup-*: 
>> No such file or directory
>>
>> I have been messing about with the SDK install path and at one point 
>> it did spew out a load of files installed vs shipped warnings I 
>> assume due to a change of path and it getting upset about it, but 
>> since then I deleted the tmp directory and rebuilt a new SDK without 
>> warnings. However, both acted in the same way.
>>
>> The SDK then sits without installing, seemingly stuck on: grep 
>> OECORE_NATIVE_SYSROOT, which I assume means it's looking for the 
>> (non-existant) environment file.
>>
>> Any clues? Is this broken for anyone else?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jack.
>
> Ok, I figured out how I broke it; I used a relative path in SDKPATH. i.e.
>
> SDKPATH=/path/to/sdk/../rel-sdk
>
> So, first off; should this be supported? Secondly, the use-case I was 
> trying to get at was to position an SDK relative to the build dir, i.e.
>
> SDKPATH=${TOPDIR}/../sdk
>
> Is there a better way to do this. I guess this problem could be solved 
> somewhere in an SDK class by changing the relative path to an absolute 
> path. Ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Jack.

I found an ugly work-around but it would be nice for this to be 
supported in the future, or at least error on a relative path.

SDKPATH := "${@os.path.abspath(d.getVar('TOPDIR', 
True)+"/../sdk/"+d.getVar('SDK_VERSION', True)+"/"+d.getVar('SDK_ARCH', 
True))}"

Cheers,