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Subject: Re: Writing do_install_append for target and virtclass-native in a bbappend
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On Monday 16 April 2012 20:32:25 Darren Hart wrote:
> I'm trying to address a symlink naming issue in the bzip2 package when
> used with Chrome. Chrome is looking for a specific soname, which the
> default install of bzip2 doesn't setup. I can address this easily by
> adding the symlink via a bzip2 bbappend in do_install_append().
> Unfortunately, this fails for the virtclass-native variant. I tried
> adding and empty:
> 
> do_install_append_virtclass-native() {
> 
> }
> 
> function to the bbappend, which still failed. I then added an echo
> statement which appeared in the output, but it still ran non-native
> do_install_append() and failed. Switching the order of the functions
> made the echo output disappear, but the native variant still failed.
> 
> I figure I must be missing something rather fundamental here. Any ideas
> what it might be?

Unfortunately the virtclass overrides can't help you when you want to just 
append something in the target case; however, what we usually do is just do an 
normal append and then check within it if [ "${PN}" = "${BPN}" ] which will be 
false for -native, -nativesdk etc.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre