[yocto] do_fetch_append: syntax error

[Nicolas Dechesne]

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 10:36 AM Damien LEFEVRE <lefevre.da at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have the following bbappend
>
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
> SRC_URI += " \
>     file://tegra186_cti_defconfig \
> "
>
> do_fetch_append(){
>     mv ${WORKDIR}/tegra186_cti_defconfig ${WORKDIR}/defconfig
> }
>
> For this I get an error:
>   File "autogenerated", line 3
>     mv ${WORKDIR}/tegra186_cti_defconfig ${WORKDIR}/defconfig
>           ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> Can someone explain why? I get the same in do_fetch_append. Starts working with do_configure_append but that's too late in case of rebuild.

do_fetch is a Python function, not a shell function. See
meta/classes/base.bbclass

you can use do_configure_prepend() if you need to do something
*before* the actual do_configure.

>
> Thanks,
> -Damien
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