[yocto] Yocto and Google protobuffer

[Samuel Stirtzel]

2016-09-01 12:34 GMT+02:00 Jussi Kukkonen <jussi.kukkonen at intel.com>:
> On 1 September 2016 at 13:21, Herman van Hazendonk <me at herrie.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Pietro,
>>
>> You can override the recipe by adding a recipe for version 3.0.0+ in your
>> own layer and making sure your layer has a higher priority in bblayers.conf.
>> See for example what we do in our project:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/webOS-ports/webos-ports-setup/blob/testing/conf/bblayers.conf
>>
>> openembedded-core provides ofono 1.1.7 for example with
>> https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/tree/krogoth/meta/recipes-connectivity/ofono
>>
>> However we want to use ANOTHER version of ofono (1.1.7 based, but from a
>> different repo/project).
>>
>> So we have our own .bbappend at
>> https://github.com/webOS-ports/meta-webos-ports/blob/krogoth/meta-luneos/recipes-connectivity/ofono/ofono_git.bbappend
>> where we specify the different repo etc to use.
>>
>> This doesn't apply 1:1 in your case, but you could simply add a
>> protobuf_3.0.0.bb in your own layer and it should build that instead. Just
>> make sure you have your layer at a higher position compared to
>> meta-openembedded in your bblayers.conf
>
>
> In the normal case (a simple upgrade to the newest version) the best choice
> would be to send a upgrade patch to openembedded-devel list: that way you
> never have to maintain it in your own layer.
>

Hi,

protobuf 2.x and 3.x are incompatible, there is also a protobuf3
recipe in meta-maker.


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Regards
Samuel