[poky] Source package with wrong directory in it

[Laurentiu Palcu]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 06:34:49AM +0000, Keskinarkaus, Teemu wrote:
> Hi,
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> This might be another user issue and not poky issue itself, but hopefully
> someone could help me here.
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> Usually when I download source package and unpack it will unpack itself to in
> directory name-version (eg. program-1.2.3) and yocto also assumes so. Well, I
> have managed to find one program that doesn’t have the version part of the
> directory name and haven’t been able to redirect the yocto/poky to use that
> program-directory without version to build the program.
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> Is there a way to do that within the recipe and not needing to touch the
> class-files? And this is program that’s not originally in yocto so it’s .bb and
> not .bbappend – file.
Did you try to set S = ${WORKDIR}/program-blah-blah in the recipe?

Here's an example:
meta/recipes-extended/zip/zip_3.0.bb

I hope this helps,
Laurentiu

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> And I don’t want to start repacking the software or trying to convince the
> author to rename the package since there might be other similar sources as
> well.
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> Teemu Keskinarkaus
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