[oe] bitbake ignores DEFAULT_PREFERENCE

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko<denis at denix.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:40:08AM +0600, Dmitry Vinokurov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to port OE to LPC3250 board and now I'm trying to build
>> helloworld-image.
>>
>> I've created lpc3250.conf in conf/machine:
>> TARGET_ARCH = "arm"
>> PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS = "armv5te"
>> TARGET_CC_ARCH = "-fsigned-char -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=softfp"
>>
>> Then I've added DEFAULT_PREFERENCE_lpc3250 = "1" to
>> 'recipes/linux/linux_2.6.27.bb', but 'bitbake -v helloworld-image'
>> downloads 2.6.23 kernel all the same. Re-reading all recipes database make
>> no sense.

It could be downloading it for linux-libc-headers package too. bitbake -g
can help you here.

>>
>> Could anybody advise, how this can be solved? I need to use exactly 2.6.27
>> kernel as I know that it definitely works.
>
> Are you sure it downloads 2.6.23 to build your kernel and not the
> linux-libc-headers? Check the dependencies and what it's going to build by
> executing "bitbake <target> -g" and then poking into depends.dot...
>
> Otherwise you can try setting PREFERRED_VERSION_virtual/kernel = "2.6.23" to
> override DEFAULT_PREFERENCE...
>
> --
> Denys
>
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