Is it possible for a recipe to include/require something from a subdirectory?

Is it possible for a recipe to include/require something from a subdirectory?

[Ulf Samuelsson]

I just finished a nice gnome script which allows me to automatically
generate SRC_URI_append's

I select the files[1-4] in <recipy-dir>/<recipy>/<xxx>/<yyy>",
and then run the script

result is:

SRC_URI_append_<board> = "\
	file://<file1>	\
	file://<file2>	\
	file://<file3>	\
	file://<file4>	\
	"

Now, in <recipy-dir>/<recipy>.bb I want to include the file using

require <xxx>/<yyy>/SRC_URI_append

This did not work, so I tried symlinking - bad move...
I'd hate having to move it to the top directory of the recipe.

Any ideas?

-- 
Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson

Re: Is it possible for a recipe to include/require something from a subdirectory?

[Chris Larson]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Ulf Samuelsson<ulf.samuelsson@atmel.com> wrote:
> I just finished a nice gnome script which allows me to automatically
> generate SRC_URI_append's
>
> I select the files[1-4] in <recipy-dir>/<recipy>/<xxx>/<yyy>",
> and then run the script
>
> result is:
>
> SRC_URI_append_<board> = "\
>        file://<file1>  \
>        file://<file2>  \
>        file://<file3>  \
>        file://<file4>  \
>        "
>
> Now, in <recipy-dir>/<recipy>.bb I want to include the file using
>
> require <xxx>/<yyy>/SRC_URI_append
>
> This did not work, so I tried symlinking - bad move...
> I'd hate having to move it to the top directory of the recipe.
>
> Any ideas?

include/require obey BBPATH.  As far as I know, the parser should be
temporarily changing bbpath to facilitate includes relative to the
file doing the including.  If that isn't working, you could try
require ${FILE_DIRNAME}/foo/bar instead.
-- 
Chris Larson
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clarson at mvista dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Software Engineer
MontaVista Software, Inc.

Re: Is it possible for a recipe to include/require something from a subdirectory?

[Ulf Samuelsson]

Chris Larson skrev:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Ulf Samuelsson<ulf.samuelsson@atmel.com> wrote:
>> I just finished a nice gnome script which allows me to automatically
>> generate SRC_URI_append's
>>
>> I select the files[1-4] in <recipy-dir>/<recipy>/<xxx>/<yyy>",
>> and then run the script
>>
>> result is:
>>
>> SRC_URI_append_<board> = "\
>>        file://<file1>  \
>>        file://<file2>  \
>>        file://<file3>  \
>>        file://<file4>  \
>>        "
>>
>> Now, in <recipy-dir>/<recipy>.bb I want to include the file using
>>
>> require <xxx>/<yyy>/SRC_URI_append
>>
>> This did not work, so I tried symlinking - bad move...
>> I'd hate having to move it to the top directory of the recipe.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> include/require obey BBPATH.  As far as I know, the parser should be
> temporarily changing bbpath to facilitate includes relative to the
> file doing the including.  If that isn't working, you could try
> require ${FILE_DIRNAME}/foo/bar instead.

That worked,
This saves me a lot of time.
I am thinking of checking in the script that generates the file.
Anyone interested?

Got as few other gnome scripts which I find useful.

1: Select <dir>; Copy <dir> to <dir>-0rig for creating a patch
2: Select <dir1> and <dir2>; diff -urN <dir1> <dir2>
3: Select <patch>.patch;
   splitdiff the patch into the directory <patch>/patchdir.
   Rename each <patch> to <patch>.patch
   If the file "template" is present:
	For each <string> (one per line) in template
	If a patch matches the string:
		create the <string> directory
		move all matching patches to this directory.
4: Select <source> and <patch-directory>
	The <patch-directory> is identified by having "./patchdir"
	"./patchdir contains a number of directories (patchsets).
	Attempt to apply all patches in the patch directory
	to the source tree using --dry-run.
	Provide OK/FAIL result + a list of all
	working patches are collected in a file.
5: Select a number of files; Generate SRC_URI_append.inc,
		optimized for the kernel
	It will check if a file "arch" exists and for
	each machine listed in "arch" it will check its subdirectory
	for a "defconfig", and will generate a
	SRC_URI_append_<arch>.inc, containing the stuff for each arch.
6: Select <file>; Set the execute bit on the <file>
7: Select <dir> <file>.patch; apply <patch>.patch to <dir>
	Report results


-- 
Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson