[bitbake-devel] Bitbake override style removal with variable expansion

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 14:33 +0100, Shuang Liu wrote:
> I face a problem that I tried to use the bitbake override style
> removal with variable expansion.
> 
> I have a foo.bb and set FOO_PACKAGES = "${PN}_dummy"
> And I use a foo.bbappend to remove it by FOO_PACKAGES_remove =
> "${PN}_dummy"
> This doesn't work.
> 
> However, FOO_PACKAGES_remove = "foo_dummy" works fine.
> 
> Furthermore I tried other variable names besides PN, e.g.
> FOO_PACKAGES = "foo_dummy"
> FOONAME = "foo"
> FOO_PACKAGES_remove = "${FOONAME}_dummy"
> This doesn't works either.
> 
> So maybe there is some issue with variable expansion in the override
> style removal?
> 
> I use bitbake 1.22 and am sorry I cannot test the master branch on my
> working environment.
> BitBake Build Tool Core version 1.22.0, bitbake version 1.22.0
> 
> Does somebody have some idea about thie behavior?
> 
> I am a bitbake rookie and please forgive me if the question is not
> reasonable.

This was answered on stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35336111/bitbake-override-style-removal-with-variable-expansion

Cheers,

Richard