Re: [RFC] migration of OpenPlatformPkg to tianocore

[Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 03:57:10PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> Build/Cello/DEBUG_GCC5/AARCH64/edk2-platforms/Silicon/AMD/Styx/AcpiTables/AcpiAml/OUTPUT/Dsdt.hex
> >>
> >> but the include is defined as
> >>
> >>   GCC:*_*_AARCH64_PLATFORM_FLAGS =
> >> -I$(BIN_DIR)/Silicon/AMD/Styx/AcpiTables/AcpiAml/OUTPUT
> >
> > You're not reading the documentation ;)  (Have a glance at Readme.md.)
> >
> > Yes, this is the behaviour I had before this latest reshuffle.
> > Mike's proposed (and functional) workaround is to not have "edk2" as
> > your WORKSPACE, but a common superdirectory of edk2, edk2-platforms
> > and edk2-non-osi.
> >
> > Hopefully at some point we can get rid of this restriction, but for
> > now it's sort of necessary.
> 
> Thanks for clearing that up. And as it turns out, WORKSPACE is not
> required to be a parent directory to the core EDK2 checkout or any of
> the alternative sources listed in PACKAGES_PATH, which is actually
> quite convenient.

*cough* yes, apparently that works when you actually set WORKSPACE in
the same terminal as you then run edksetup.sh from...

/
    Leif