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

[Detlef Vollmann]

On 07/18/10 18:06, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Detlef Vollmann <dv at vollmann.ch> wrote:
> 
>> 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 :-(
> 
> 
> Don't copy the recipe at all, use .bbappend instead, and you won't need to
> have the .inc in a different collection from the recipe itself.
In that case I didn't understand .bbappend.
If I have a recipe gcc_4.3.2.bb in e.g. oe-stable/recipes/gcc, but in
that directory is no gcc_4.4.4.bb,  and I put gcc_4.4.4.bbappend into
myproject/recipes/gcc, that would probably given an error like
'no .bb file to append'.
At least that's how I understood .bbappend.

> Alternatively, you can adjust BBPATH to also include the other collection
> based paths + os.path.dirname('${FILE_DIRNAME}') or so.
I'd be very interested to find a way so that a 'require gcc.inc' in
myproject/recipes/gcc_4.4.4.bb would find oe-stable/recipes/gcc/gcc.inc.
So far I failed.

   Detlef