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Subject: Re: [oe-core] THISDIR usage
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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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