[oe] Weird behaviour with PPP

[Mickael Chazaux]

Hi,

2011/2/22 Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 07:24:28PM +0100, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 02/22/2011 06:52 PM, Eric Benard wrote:
>> > On 22/02/2011 18:22, Mickael Chazaux wrote:
>> >> I have a hard time figuring out why bitbake seems to mix versions of
>> >> ppp... Any ideas?
>> >>
>> > strange, which distro, git tag, bitbake version are you using ?
>> >
>> > Both bitbake ppp-2.4.5 & bitbake -b
>> > openembedded/recipes/ppp/ppp_2.4.5.bb work fine here (angstrom 2008.1,
>> > armv5 target, bitbake 1.12.0).
>>
>> I don't think this has anything to do with ppp. I faced the same issue
>> with a local recipe, of which an older version had been built before.
>> When packaging, the old version was used. A new workdir was created for
>> the old version during this step and the resulting packages were empty.
>> No recipe existed for this old version at that time, i.e. PR had already
>> been increased to 1.0, but 0.0 was used by bitbake.
>>
>> In the end, I deleted bitbake's cache and all files matching the
>> package's name to get rid of the annoying problem. I think there were
>> pstage packages of the old version lying around.
>
> This wrong behavior is quite common ie after changing PACKAGE_ARCH, see:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org/msg04280.html
>
As I often switch architectures (arm, x86) to work on different
boards, should I use a different TMPDIR for each?

Regards,

Mickael