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

[Detlef Vollmann]

On 07/18/10 17:13, Chris Larson wrote:
> 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.
AFAIK this doen't work for include/require :-(

   Detlef