[oe-core] THISDIR usage

[Giuseppe Condorelli <giuseppe.condorelli@gmail.com>]

> I'm obtaining this error trying to rebuild the poky-edison repository
> (http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/poky-edison-6.
> 0.1.tar.bz2)
> and the error is happening trying to build quilt-native package (indeed I'm
> running ../script/bitbake -k core-image-sato), where I passed the tar.gz
> directly using the instructions below.
>
> This is the output of tree meta-yocto (snipped)
>
> meta-yocto
>     recipes-devtools
>          quilt
>               files
>        quilt-0.48.tar.gz
>    quilt-native_0.48.bbappend
>
> Best Regards,
> Giuseppe
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-devel-bounces@lists.openembedded.org
> [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces@lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Gary
> Thomas
> Sent: mercoledì 11 aprile 2012 13:06
> To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [oe] [oe-core] THISDIR usage
>
> On 2012-04-11 04:52, Giuseppe Condorelli wrote:
>> Many thanks for the reply, I tried the suggestion but I obtained this:
>>
>> "Unable to fetch URL file://myfile.tar.gz from any source"
>>
>> What's happening?
>
> Does your layer look like the pseudo tree quoted below?  Can you send the
> results of 'tree meta-giuseppe'?
>
> One way to get a glimpse of where bitbake is looking for your file is to use
> strace (GIANT hammer) like this:
>   % strace -o /tmp/xx.bb -f bitbake some-recipe
>   % grep myfile.tar.gz /tmp/xx.bb
> This way you can see the paths being searched.
>
>> Il giorno mercoledì 11 aprile 2012, Gary Thomas ha scritto:
>>
>>> 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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