[OE-core] [PATCH 03/30] conf/layer.conf: Use .= to append to BBPATH and =+ for BBFILES

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 22:26 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
>> From: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
>>
>> Appending to BBPATH gives a definite order to BBLAYERS which
>> means paths are preferred in order from left to right.
>>
>> [sgw: merged in comment]
>> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>  meta/conf/layer.conf |   10 +++++++++-
>>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/conf/layer.conf b/meta/conf/layer.conf
>> index 3f63c7d..10a6948 100644
>> --- a/meta/conf/layer.conf
>> +++ b/meta/conf/layer.conf
>> @@ -2,7 +2,15 @@ BBPATH ?= ""
>>  # We have a conf and classes directory, add to BBPATH
>>  BBPATH .= ":${LAYERDIR}"
>>  # We have a packages directory, add to BBFILES
>> -BBFILES += "${LAYERDIR}/packages/*/*.bb ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bb"
>> +# packages is still there because metadata_scm.bbclass still uses
>> +# it to deduce the repo directory and thats the reason to prepend
>> +# to BBFILES here because this class uses the first entry in
>> +# BBFILES to calculate the scm base.
>> +# since the order of BBFLILES is not that important its acted upon
>> +# using BBFILES_PRIORITY we are ok to keep the oe-core BBFILES dir
>> +# at top
>
> Er, how about we actually fix metadata_scm.bbclass instead of making the
> world more complicated and fragile? :)
>
> I suspect metadata_scm could use the COREBASE variable and be much nicer
> code...
>
yes
OK let me see

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
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