[Openembedded-users] Local builds using SRC_URI = "file:..."

[Arigead]

Anatoly Shipitsin wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 14:48, Arigead <captain.deadly at gmail.com
> <mailto:captain.deadly at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Anatoly Shipitsin wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 13:20, Arigead <captain.deadly at gmail.com
>     <mailto:captain.deadly at gmail.com>
>     > <mailto:captain.deadly at gmail.com
>     <mailto:captain.deadly at gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>     >
>     >     So as I say I misunderstand the workings of the SRC_URI file
>     so I wonder
>     >     could anybody explain to me how this should be working?
>     >
>     >
>     > http://bitbake.berlios.de/manual/ch03s02.html
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>     >
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>     Yes I have that and I have specified the correct Source Directory but
>     I'm wondering about the actual operation of the build process.
> 
> 
> You don't understand. Bitbake allways search file relatve. If you set
> absoulte path its not work.
> For fix this add to local.conf
> 
> FILESPATH =. "/home/john/programming/openmoko/shr/shr-unstable/local:"
> 
> And next modify 
> 
> SRC_URI
> = "file:///home/john/programming/openmoko/shr/shr-unstable/local/libphone-ui-shr"
> 
> to
>  
> SRC_URI = "file://libphone-ui-shr"
> 
> 

Ah. Thanks a million Anatoly I didn't know absolute paths didn't work.
Thanks I'm trying this out at the moment but I've changed local.conf so
my wee build is going to take a moment or two.

I'll let you know.