[bitbake-devel] what type of assignments are the append and prepend operations?

Rifenbark, Scott M scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com
Wed Jul 9 12:05:22 UTC 2014


I tightened this up with some consistent verbiage.  Changes need merged to bitbake repo.

Scott

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>prepend operations?
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>  chapter 3 of bitbake user manual correctly discusses the difference between
>"=" and ":=", but says nothing about what happens with all of the other
>assignments such as .=, =., +=, =+, _append, _prepend. are those what i
>would call immediate evaluation or delayed evaluation? i think readers might
>want to know that.
>
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