[oe] [Bitbake-dev] A new bitbake extension: .bbappend files

[Chris Larson]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Detlef Vollmann <dv at vollmann.ch> wrote:

> On 07/16/10 16:25, Richard Purdie wrote:
>
>> For the specific case of paths, I have wondered if there would be a way
>> to leverage help from bitbake in creating a sane set of search paths but
>> I'm still thinking about that. This extension is good enough in its own
>> right in my opinion to be worthwhile.
>>
> This might be true, but solving the general path problem would be
> much more useful.
> If you want to add a new version of e.g. gcc in your ovlerlay,
> you have to pull over the whole gcc directory with all its .inc classes.
> This can't be solved by .bbapend, or am I missing something?


You can handle that today by adding to FILESPATHBASE.  All file:// files
from SRC_URI are located using FILESPATH, which is constructed from
FILESPATHBASE, FILESPATHPKG, and OVERRIDES.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics