[yocto] Weird FILESPATH issue

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-04-05 06:53, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm trying to write a patch for this recipe:
>    meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject_2.27.91.bb
>
> I tried with a .bbappend that looks like this:
>    FILESEXTRAPATHS_append = ":${THISDIR}/${PN}-${PV}:${THISDIR}/${PN}"
>    SRC_URI_append = " file://fix-registration-warnings.patch "
>
> Also like this:
>    FILESPATH_append = ":${THISDIR}/${BPN}-${PV}"
>    SRC_URI_append = " file://fix-registration-warnings.patch "
> to which I get this error:
>    ERROR: Fetcher failure: Unable to find file file://fix-registration-warnings.patch anywhere. The paths that were searched were:
>      /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject
>      /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/files
>      /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-2.27.91
>      /home/local/p82_soft/downloads
>
> I think the problem is because the main recipe contains this line:
>    FILESPATH = "${FILE_DIRNAME}/python-pygobject:${FILE_DIRNAME}/files"
>
> How can I write my .bbappend file to pick up the patch from my [local] layer?
>
> Thanks
>
> n.b. isn't that 'FILESPATH' line in the main recipe rather unfriendly?
>

What I don't get is that I've done this exact same style of .bbappend for
other recipes and it works fine.  For example, I have this

   ${LAYER}/recipes-sato/gtk-engines/gtk-sato-engine_git.bbappend:
        FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
        SRC_URI_append = " file://adjust-sato-theme.patch "
        PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"

This .bbappend file works perfectly :-(

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