[bitbake-devel] Conditional assignment broken

[Richard Purdie]

Hi James,

On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 06:50 +0800, James Limbouris wrote:
>  Commit 21c21fcc5871e81d8d497b6baed605cdd74c4571 breaks conditional assignment
>  in all conf files. Previously, the environment was copied from a
> cleaned up os environment.
>  After the commit, a pristine environment is available in
> data['_data'], and will be copied to
>  data[] on conditional assignment, defying BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE.
> Variables not conditionally
>  assigned will still be available from data['_data'], also in defiance
> of BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE.
> 
>  To verify, simply:
> 
>  export RANDOMENV=42
>  bitbake -e | grep RANDOMENV

Thanks for finding this. Is this related to the pseudo issue you
mentioned on the OE-Core list? I'm guessing this would explain that.

I've merged Joshua's fix into master so hopefully we've got the
environment issues fixed at least.

Cheers,

Richard