[yocto] PROVIDES problem building u-boot variants

[Andre McCurdy]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 7:12 AM,  <colin.helliwell at ln-systems.com> wrote:
> Let's see if I can explain this well...
>
> I created a recipe to build a u-boot variant (for prod'n programming) -
> "u-boot-PLATFORM-mfg-sec.bb" - which has :
>
> require u-boot-PLATFORM.inc
> UBOOT_MACHINE = "tx6s-8035_mfg_sec_config"
> SRC_URI += "file://tx6s-8035_mfg_sec_defconfig"
>
> And 'bitbake u-boot-PLATFORM-mfg-sec' works ok with this.
>
> Now I want to split this out into two different variants, for different
> cpu's.
>
> So I begin by renaming the recipe to "u-boot-PLATFORM_tx6s-mfg-sec.bb",
> But 'bitbake u-boot-PLATFORM_tx6s-mfg-sec'  throws:
>    "Nothing PROVIDES 'u-boot- PLATFORM_tx6s-mfg-sec'"
>
> Can't spot why this simple renaming is breaking things...?

You tried to use an underscore in the recipe name.

u-boot-PLATFORM_tx6s-mfg-sec.bb will be treated as version
"tx6s-mfg-sec" of the "u-boot-PLATFORM" recipe.