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Subject: PREFERRED_VERSION and wildcards
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Hi,

I just tried using wildcards, like it's done for gcc, e.g.:

PREFERRED_VERSION_foo = "1.2%"

Now, if I have two foo recipes, foo_1.2.1.bb and foo_1.2.3.bb, in the
same directory, then Bitbake always chooses 1.2.1 instead of the one
with the higher version number. Does bitbake always choose the first
matching version it can find? Is this a general limitation of wildcards,
or is this a problem that can get corrected? I'd expect it to choose the
highest matching version.

Regards,
Andreas