Re: using do_install_append?

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2015-10-22 12:26, Smith, Daniel W wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This seems like it should be an easy task, but perhaps I’m missing something very basic so it is not working.
>
> I have working recipe that installs the fluxbox window manager.  However I want to customize the default runtime configuration files located in /usr/share/fluxbox.  To do this I
> created fluxbox_1.3.5.bbappend in order to replace the default configuration files with my own.
>
> This file contains the following:
>
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend_poky := "${THISDIR}/files:"
>
> SRC_URI = "file://apps \
>
>             file://init \
>
>             file://keys \
>
>             file://menu \
>
>             file://overlay \
>
>             file://windowmenu "

Shouldn't this be SRC_URI_append ?  Otherwise, your .bbappend will be
writing over the SRC_URI from the original recipe.

Also, please CC your replies to the list so that everyone benefits.

>
> #
>
> # Install the customized Fluxbox configuration files.
>
> #
>
> do_install_append() {
>
>    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/apps          ${D}{datadir}/fluxbox/apps
>
>    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/init          ${D}{datadir}/fluxbox/init
>
>    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/keys          ${D}{datadir}/fluxbox/keys
>
>    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/menu          ${D}{datadir}/fluxbox/menu
>
>    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/windowmenu    ${D}{datadir}/fluxbox/windowmenu
>
> }
>
> However now when I bitbake fluxbox it fails to configure:
>
> ERROR: Function failed: fluxbox: LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file: /export/home/dwsmith/poky-fido-13.0.0/build/tmp/work/ppc7400-poky-linux/fluxbox/1.3.5-r0/git/COPYING
>
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /export/home/dwsmith/poky-fido-13.0.0/build/tmp/work/ppc7400-poky-linux/fluxbox/1.3.5-r0/temp/log.do_configure.32643
>
> Log data follows:
>
> | DEBUG: Executing python function sysroot_cleansstate
>
> | DEBUG: Python function sysroot_cleansstate finished
>
> | DEBUG: SITE files ['endian-big', 'bit-32', 'powerpc-common', 'common-linux', 'common-glibc', 'powerpc32-linux', 'powerpc-linux', 'common']
>
> | DEBUG: Executing shell function autotools_preconfigure
>
> | DEBUG: Shell function autotools_preconfigure finished
>
> | DEBUG: Executing python function autotools_copy_aclocals
>
> | DEBUG: Python function autotools_copy_aclocals finished
>
> | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_configure
>
> | NOTE: nothing to configure
>
> | DEBUG: Shell function do_configure finished
>
> | DEBUG: Executing python function do_qa_configure
>
> | NOTE: Checking autotools environment for common misconfiguration
>
> | DEBUG: Python function do_qa_configure finished
>
> | ERROR: Function failed: fluxbox: LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file: /export/home/dwsmith/poky-fido-13.0.0/build/tmp/work/ppc7400-poky-linux/fluxbox/1.3.5-r0/git/COPYING
>
> ERROR: Task 5 (/export/home/dwsmith/poky-fido-13.0.0/meta-lightwm-master/recipes-fluxbox/fluxbox/fluxbox_1.3.5.bb, do_configure) failed with exit code '1'
>
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 793 tasks of which 792 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.
>
> Why would adding a do_install_append cause the config to now fail?  What am I missing?  I can remove  fluxbox_1.3.5.bbappend and it works fine, so there is obviously something I’m
> not doing right.
>
> Thanks for nay help you can provide.
>
> -Daniel Smith
>
>
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