[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 2/3] data_smart: Allow numeric characters in overrides

[Peter Kjellerstedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> Sent: den 19 december 2018 12:42
> To: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com>; bitbake-
> devel at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH 2/3] data_smart: Allow numeric
> characters in overrides
> 
> On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 10:55 +0000, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> > I don't understand the commit message either. It says that there are
> > problems with x86-64 because it contains digits, but x86 (which the
> > commit message says works) contains digits too, so that cannot
> > really
> > be the case. If it is actually the dash in x86-64 that is supposedly
> > a cause of problems, then islower() ignores both digits and non-
> > alpha
> > characters like the dash so that cannot really be a reason to change
> > the code either. All in all I'm confused by this commit and what it
> > is trying to solve...
> 
> Consider this output from python:
> 
> >>> "64".islower()
> False
> >>> "x64".islower()
> True
> >>> "x64A".islower()
> False
> >>>
> 
> The problem is that "64".islower() returns False when we need True
> (overrides get split by '_' so x86_64 turns into "x86" and "64" in the
> code in question).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard

Ok, that makes more sense, except for one thing: where/when is _x86_64 
used as override(s)? The only related overrides I can find in OE-Core 
all use _x86-64, which matches ${TRANSLATED_TARGET_ARCH} for, e.g., 
qemux86-64.

//Peter