[oe] Weird behaviour with PPP

[Mickael Chazaux]

Hi,

2011/2/23 Aeschbacher, Fabrice <Fabrice.Aeschbacher at siemens.com>:
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
>> [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] Im
>> Auftrag von Mickael Chazaux
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2011 10:19
>> An: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
>> Betreff: Re: [oe] Weird behaviour with PPP
>>
>> 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.openembed
>> ded.org/msg04280.html
>> >
>> As I often switch architectures (arm, x86) to work on different
>> boards, should I use a different TMPDIR for each?
>
> I am using one different TMPDIR for each MACHINE:
>  build/mach1, build/mach2, ...
>
> I still have to find a way to make two different machines with same arch (hence same cross-toolchain) share the same pstage, so that the toolchain does not get built twice
>

Thanks for all the help. A fresh rebuild in a new TMPDIR builds the
right version of PPP.

Regards,

Mickael