[oe] Amend recipes which do not contain a (new) target machine in COMPATIBLE_MACHINE

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:46:19PM +0200, Hauser, Wolfgang (external) wrote:
> >I guess you might not be able to append to COMPATIBLE_MACHINE from
> >amend.inc since amend.bbclass probably doesn't get run early enough.
> >But you should be able to use COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_append_pn-... in your
> >layer.conf, or COMPATIBLE_MACHINE += in a .bbappend file.  Are those
> not
> >working for you?
> 
> The .bbappend files don't work with bitbake version 1.10.2 which is
> required by OE release 2011.03.
> 
> I want to use linux-omap-psp_2.6.32.bb as kernel recipe, how is the
> exact format for COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_append_pn-... ?
> 
> I tried COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_append_linux-omap-psp = "mymachine" and
> COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_append_pn-linux-omap-psp = "mymachine", both don't
> work for me.

COMPATIBLE_MACHINE is a regular expression, so you need to make sure the 
syntax is not broken when you append to it. In the case of linux-omap-psp, you 
can try adding "|mymachine"...

-- 
Denys