1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py
index 0d26a07438..0e3244a1c5 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py
@@ -91,6 +91,16 @@ class OESelftestTestContext(OETestContext):
         # Tried to used bitbake-layers add/remove but it requires recipe parsing and hence is too slow
         subprocess.check_output("sed %s/conf/bblayers.conf -i -e 's#%s#%s#g'" % (newbuilddir, selftestdir, newselftestdir), cwd=newbuilddir, shell=True)
 
+        # Relative paths in BBLAYERS only works when the new build dir share the same ascending node
+        if self.newbuilddir:
+            bblayers = subprocess.check_output("bitbake-getvar --value BBLAYERS | tail -1", cwd=builddir, shell=True, text=True)
+            if '..' in bblayers:
+                bblayers_abspath = [os.path.abspath(path) for path in bblayers.split()]
+                with open("%s/conf/bblayers.conf" % newbuilddir, "a") as f:
+                    newbblayers = "# new bblayers to be used by selftest in the new build dir '%s'\n" % newbuilddir
+                    newbblayers += 'BBLAYERS = "%s"\n' % ' '.join(bblayers_abspath)
+                    f.write(newbblayers)
+
         for e in os.environ:
             if builddir + "/" in os.environ[e]:
                 os.environ[e] = os.environ[e].replace(builddir + "/", newbuilddir + "/")