[yocto] Weird FILESPATH issue

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-04-05 11:31, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Friday 05 April 2013 11:04:15 Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2013-04-05 06:53, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> 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 :-(
>
> The FILESPATH line you referred to is very old and probably no longer
> necessary. Try dropping it and see if everything works.

I did and it still doesn't work.  Now it looks at many more directories,
including the overrides, etc, but still not looking in the layer that
contains the .bbappend.  I now get these:
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-native-2.27.91/i686
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-native-2.27.91/cobra4430p82
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-native-2.27.91/omap4
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-native-2.27.91/armv7a
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-native-2.27.91/amltd
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-native-2.27.91/
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-native/i686
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-native/cobra4430p82
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-native/omap4
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-native/armv7a
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-native/amltd
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-native/
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-2.27.91/i686
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-2.27.91/cobra4430p82
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-2.27.91/omap4
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-2.27.91/armv7a
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-2.27.91/amltd
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject-2.27.91/
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject/i686
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject/cobra4430p82
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject/omap4
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject/armv7a
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject/amltd
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject/
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/files/i686
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/files/cobra4430p82
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/files/omap4
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/files/armv7a
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/files/amltd
     /home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/python/files/

Still very confused.

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