[meta-xilinx] externalxsctsrc.bbclass deletes the source dir! :(

[Jean-Francois Dagenais]

I have a fsbl_git.bbappend which adds the following:

XSCTH_BUILD_DEBUG = "1"
inherit externalxsctsrc
EXTERNALXSCTSRC = "/home/dagenaisj/devel/xlnx-embeddedsw"
EXTERNALXSCTSRC_BUILD = "/builds/fsbl/ws"

Replicate:

Start with a normal build 'bitbake fsbl -c configure'
Then add the above lines, the source directory can be dummy, like this:

mkdir /tmp/dontDeleteMePlease
touch /tmp/dontDeleteMePlease/SomeFileInThisDir


Then make EXTERNALXSCTSRC point to this dir. Then issue 'bitbake fsbl -c configure', BAM! /tmp/dontDeleteMePlease is now empty.

There seems to be some corner case around cleandirs around the fact that xsctapp.bbclass recipes have 'app.tcl' in their SRC_URI.


I really wonder though if it would not be possible to use (and extend) "externasrc.bbclass"

Cheers!