[yocto] PROVIDES problem building u-boot variants

[Colin Helliwell]

> On 15 January 2018 at 20:01 Andre McCurdy wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 7:12 AM, 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.

Ah, of course. Thanks.