[oe] [oe-core] THISDIR usage

[Jaap de Jong]

There is no file named: myfile.tar.gz
That it can't be found by bitbake is pretty clear then...


On 04/11/2012 02:49 PM, Giuseppe Condorelli wrote:
>> I'm obtaining this error trying to rebuild the poky-edison repository
>> (http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/poky-edison-6.
>> 0.1.tar.bz2)
>> and the error is happening trying to build quilt-native package (indeed I'm
>> running ../script/bitbake -k core-image-sato), where I passed the tar.gz
>> directly using the instructions below.
>>
>> This is the output of tree meta-yocto (snipped)
>>
>> meta-yocto
>>      recipes-devtools
>>           quilt
>>                files
>>         quilt-0.48.tar.gz
>>     quilt-native_0.48.bbappend
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Giuseppe
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
>> [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Gary
>> Thomas
>> Sent: mercoledì 11 aprile 2012 13:06
>> To: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
>> Subject: Re: [oe] [oe-core] THISDIR usage
>>
>> On 2012-04-11 04:52, Giuseppe Condorelli wrote:
>>> Many thanks for the reply, I tried the suggestion but I obtained this:
>>>
>>> "Unable to fetch URL file://myfile.tar.gz from any source"
>>>
>>> What's happening?
>> Does your layer look like the pseudo tree quoted below?  Can you send the
>> results of 'tree meta-giuseppe'?
>>
>> One way to get a glimpse of where bitbake is looking for your file is to use
>> strace (GIANT hammer) like this:
>>    % strace -o /tmp/xx.bb -f bitbake some-recipe
>>    % grep myfile.tar.gz /tmp/xx.bb
>> This way you can see the paths being searched.
>>
>>> Il giorno mercoledì 11 aprile 2012, Gary Thomas ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> On 2012-04-11 04:23, Giuseppe Condorelli wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, I moved to OE-Core (working on stable version dowloaded as tar
>>>>> file from cgit.openembedded.org).
>>>>> I'm in trouble trying to include a source through .bbappend file,
>> located
>>>>> under my meta-<personal>    subtree.
>>>>>
>>>>> FILESPATHBASE_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
>>>>> SRC_URI += "file://myfile.tar.gz"
>>>>>
>>>>> results in a no such file or directory. Please can you tell me if
>>>>> I'm missing anything?
>>>>>
>>>> Assuming your tree looks something like this [partial]:
>>>>
>>>>   meta-giuseppe:
>>>>     recipes:
>>>>       some-recipe:
>>>>         some-recipe_1.2.3.bbappend
>>>>         files:
>>>>           myfile.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> Try using this instead
>>>>   FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
>> --
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
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>> MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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