Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] externalsrc: No single-task lock if S != B

["Ola x Nilsson" <ola.x.nilsson@axis.com>]

On Fri, Oct 09 2020, Douglas via lists.openembedded.org wrote:

> Allow different recipes to build things from the one external source tree in
> parallel, but only if the build is happening outside the source tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Royds <douglas.royds@taitradio.com>
> ---
> meta/classes/externalsrc.bbclass | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/externalsrc.bbclass
> b/meta/classes/externalsrc.bbclass
> index d200129987..73bbb2be3c 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/externalsrc.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/externalsrc.bbclass
> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ python () {
> if task.endswith("_setscene"):
> # sstate is never going to work for external source trees, disable it
> bb.build.deltask(task, d)
> - else:
> + elif externalsrc == externalsrcbuild:

If any of the paths contain a symlink they can point to the same dir
without being textually equal.  You need to normalize them first.

/Ola