[yocto] WARNING: Could not copy license file LICENSE -> Downloaded archive structure?

[akuster808]

Kai,


On 02/20/2015 06:44 AM, Kai Ulrich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I working on a smstools3 recipe.
>
> after running bitbake smstools3
>
> I got following
> WARNING: Could not copy license file LICENSE: [Errno 2] No such file or
> directory:
> '/home/kulrich/Develpment/yocto/dizzy/poky/build_test/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/smstools3/3.1.15-r0/smstools3-3.1.15/LICENSE'
> Function failed: smstools3: LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file:
> .../yocto/dizzy/poky/build_test/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/smstools3/3.1.15-r0/smstools3-3.1.15/LICENSE
>
> After looking for the LICENSE found it under
> .../yocto/dizzy/poky/build_test/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/smstools3/3.1.15-r0/smstools/LICENSE
>
> It seams the reason is the Package structure of the smstools3-3.1.15.tar.gz.
> it is
>
> smstools3-3.1.15.tar.gz.
> ---smstools3
> -------src
> -------scripts
> -------examples
> -------doc
> -------uninstall.sh
> -------README
> -------package.sh
> -------Makefile
> -------LICENSE
>
> with a struktur (2) like
>
> smstools3-3.1.15.tar.gz.
> ---smstools3-3.1.15
> -------src
> -------scripts
> -------examples
> -------doc
> -------uninstall.sh
> -------README
> -------package.sh
> -------Makefile
> -------LICENSE
>
> it works fine.
>
> Any idea how I can configure my recipe that that it works with the
> original package structure?
>

You might need to override the source directory in the recipe.

S = "${WORKDIR}/${BP}"

- Armin

> Kai Ulrich
>
>
>
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