[yocto] How to build a recipe having two versions

[Khem Raj]

On 11/6/16 9:53 PM, Bipnesh, Abhinav (Abhinav) wrote:
> Hi,
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> I was looking into a way to build an recipe which has two version files. For
> the xerces-c we have two version of files. Below is the list of the same
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> ./customlayer/xerces-c/xerces-c_2.8.0.bb
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> ./meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/xerces-c/xerces-c_3.1.2.bb
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> Now as the code we are using need to use xerces-c_2.8.0.bb and not the
> xerces_3.1.2.bb files. So when we try to fire command as bitbake xerces-c it
> always tries to build 3.1.2 and not 2.8.0 files. So is there a way we can
> explicitly call the older version file for building instead of the new version.

you can pin versions of packages e.g. using PREFERERRED_VERSION_xerces =
"2.8.0" in local.conf also read the relevant section in manual

https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html#var-PREFERRED_VERSION

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> Please let me know if you need more information.
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> Thanks,
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> Abhinav
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