On 2021-05-31 5:09 a.m., Quentin Schulz wrote:
> A common mistake would be the forgotten semi-colon and/or _prepend:
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files"
>
> Another common mistake is to not respect the tree layout of the original
> path relative to the original recipe (or for that matter, the one you
> want to override coming from the bbappend) for xorg.conf.
> In that case, you can see that in meta-yocto-bsp, there's a parent
> directory of xorg.conf that is not the one listed in
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend. You should add this directory in the path of
> your bbappend.

Indeed, I was basing my layout on the original recipe, not on the poky 
override (which adds the $MACHINE as a subdirectory).

With that adjustment everything appears to be working fine.

> https://pretalx.com/media/yocto-project-summit-2021/submissions/WTT3UV/resources/Demystifying_the_OVERRIDES_mechan_no6J6fb.pdf
> slides 70 to 80 might help you. The recording should be available in a
> few days/weeks.

Thanks a lot, this looks really useful !

Stefan
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