What's your usage model in DSC? BaseTools will try to replace $(WORKSPACE) with WORKSPACE and PACKAGES_PATH, and find the first existing file. So, if you want to refer to one file in PACKAGES_PATH directory, you can also use $(WORKSPACE) macro to refer to it.
Thanks Liming From: Pankaj Bansal [mailto:pankaj.ban...@nxp.com] Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2018 5:01 PM To: Zhu, Yonghong <yonghong....@intel.com>; Gao, Liming <liming....@intel.com> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Udit Kumar <udit.ku...@nxp.com>; Varun Sethi <v.se...@nxp.com> Subject: PACKAGES_PATH in !include path in Dsc files Hello All, I am trying to add this functionality that we can specify PACKAGES_PATH in !include path in Dsc files just like we can specify WORKSPACE. I did below changes for it: --- a/BaseTools/Source/Python/Workspace/MetaFileParser.py +++ b/BaseTools/Source/Python/Workspace/MetaFileParser.py @@ -1530,6 +1530,7 @@ class DscParser(MetaFileParser): # Allow using system environment variables in path after !include # __IncludeMacros['WORKSPACE'] = GlobalData.gGlobalDefines['WORKSPACE'] + __IncludeMacros['PACKAGES_PATH'] = GlobalData.gGlobalDefines['PACKAGES_PATH']^M if "ECP_SOURCE" in GlobalData.gGlobalDefines: __IncludeMacros['ECP_SOURCE'] = GlobalData.gGlobalDefines['ECP_SOURCE'] # diff --git a/BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py b/BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py index d74082fc26..61dce3a856 100644 --- a/BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py +++ b/BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py @@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ def CheckEnvVariable(): GlobalData.gEcpSource = EcpSourceDir GlobalData.gGlobalDefines["WORKSPACE"] = WorkspaceDir + GlobalData.gGlobalDefines["PACKAGES_PATH"] = PackagesPath^M GlobalData.gGlobalDefines["EFI_SOURCE"] = EfiSourceDir GlobalData.gGlobalDefines["EDK_SOURCE"] = EdkSourceDir GlobalData.gGlobalDefines["ECP_SOURCE"] = EcpSourceDir With these changes the compilation starts OK, but I get this error later on: GenFds.py... : error C0DE: Tools code failure Please send email to edk2-devel@lists.01.org<mailto:edk2-devel@lists.01.org> for help, attaching following call stack trace! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/BaseTools/Source/Python/GenFds/GenFds.py", line 246, in main TargetArchList = set(BuildWorkSpace.BuildObject[GenFdsGlobalVariable.ActivePlatform, TAB_COMMON, Options.BuildTarget, Options.ToolChain].SupArchList) & set(ArchList) File "/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/BaseTools/Source/Python/Workspace/WorkspaceDatabase.py", line 132, in __getitem__ Toolchain File "/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/BaseTools/Source/Python/Workspace/DscBuildData.py", line 221, in __init__ self._HandleOverridePath() File "/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/BaseTools/Source/Python/Workspace/DscBuildData.py", line 282, in _HandleOverridePath RecordList = self._RawData[MODEL_META_DATA_COMPONENT, self._Arch] File "/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/BaseTools/Source/Python/Workspace/MetaFileParser.py", line 257, in __getitem__ self._PostProcess() File "/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/BaseTools/Source/Python/Workspace/MetaFileParser.py", line 1358, in _PostProcess Processer[self._ItemType]() File "/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/BaseTools/Source/Python/Workspace/MetaFileParser.py", line 1533, in __ProcessDirective __IncludeMacros['PACKAGES_PATH'] = GlobalData.gGlobalDefines['PACKAGES_PATH'] KeyError: 'PACKAGES_PATH' build.py... : error 7000: Failed to execute command GenFds -f /home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/edk2-platforms/Platform/NXP/LS1043aRdbPkg/LS1043aRdbPkg.fdf --conf=/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/Conf -o /home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/Build/LS1043aRdbPkg/RELEASE_GCC49 -t GCC49 -b RELEASE -p /home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/edk2-platforms/Platform/NXP/LS1043aRdbPkg/LS1043aRdbPkg.dsc -a AARCH64 -D "EFI_SOURCE=/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/EdkCompatibilityPkg" -D "EDK_SOURCE=/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/EdkCompatibilityPkg" -D "TOOL_CHAIN_TAG=GCC49" -D "TOOLCHAIN=GCC49" -D "FAMILY=GCC" -D "PACKAGES_PATH=/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/edk2-platforms" -D "EDK_TOOLS_PATH=/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/BaseTools" -D "WORKSPACE=/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi" -D "ARCH=AARCH64" -D "ECP_SOURCE=/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi/EdkCompatibilityPkg" -D "TARGET=RELEASE" [/home/nxa34148/Desktop/uefi] - Failed - I am not able to understand the cause of this error. Can you please help? Regards, Pankaj Bansal _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel