[oe] bitbake ignores DEFAULT_PREFERENCE

[Dmitry Vinokurov]

Khem Raj wrote:
> 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
>>     
Yes, you're right, it was for linux-libc-headers package. I'm not so 
easily work with OE yet.

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Best Regards, 
Dmitry Vinokurov 
<d.vinokuroff at gmail.com>