[bitbake-devel] Difference between inclusion and inheritance

Davis Roman davis.roman84 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 21:50:58 UTC 2016


Hello Bitbake community,

I'm a bitbake newbie and so naturally I'm becoming familiar with the
bitbake documentation.

I came across something confusing ( well atleast for me ) regarding the
difference between optional/required Inclusion versus inheritance.

As far as optional/required inclusion is concerned, the documentation
states quite clearly that the main difference is that the former will not
issue an error message if the specified file is not found while the latter
will so there is no issue here.

My issue has to do with the 'inherit' command. Sounds to me like 'include'
and 'require' already do the trick so I'm curious to know what value does
'inherit' bring ?

Any clarification would be extremely appreciated.

Thank you,

Davis
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