[yocto] Trying to tweak a build with a setup.cfg file

[Chris Larson]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Paul D. DeRocco <pderocco at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

> I suspect what happened is that support for the "subdir=" option on local
> files was added in 2009, then someone thought, why have this obscure
> syntax? Simpler to impose the directory structure on the local files in
> the metadata, allow file:// to refer to any pathname, not just a filename,
> and have the file copy routine create any necessary subdirectories in the
> build tree. So they took that option out. Just a guess.
>

We've always supported directories in file:// uris. The unpacking process
was moved from base.bbclass into the bitbake fetchers. See
https://github.com/openembedded/bitbake/blob/master/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py#L1234-L1240.
Not sure why it didn't work for you, though. I'm guessing it has to do with
the way it changes the current working directory before running the
command, rather than directly altering the destination directory — if the
command being run uses an absolute path, the current working directory
wouldn't affect anything. *shrug*
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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