[oe] Changing recipe files

[Stanislav Brabec]

Geoffrey Wossum wrote:

> For whatever reason, though, the system doesn't seem to pick up my change.  
> I've tried running "bitbake -c rebuild gdb-cross".  I've tried bumping up the 
> PR value in recipe file.  I've tried wiping out the work directory for 
> gdb-cross.  Still doesn't want to use my modified version of do_stage().  
> Every time I look in the run.do_stage.xxxxx it's the old version of 
> do_stage().  I figure I could wipe out my entire build tree and the change 
> would be caught, but I don't want to wait 2.5 hours to rebuild everything.  

Normally, it's sufficient to call bitbake or even only temp/run.do_*
again. If you need to call again succeeded step, you need to remove
relevant stamp from tmp/stamps (or completely wipe out package build
directory and all package stamps).

> What is the magic incantation for my change to take effect?

But in Friday I failed using this way for unknown reason. After wiping
entire build tree, it works again as expected.

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Stanislav Brabec
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