[OE-core] Using external source trees with OE-Core

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 16:55 +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
>> We do something very similar to this currently. I've pushed what we
>> are using here:
>>
>> https://github.com/mattsm/meta-fsl-local-sdk
>>
>> It would be nice to consolidate all the required bits upstream... =)
>
> I would warn you that there is code in there that is clearly
> inappropriate for OE-Core.

No surprise at all...

> It would also explain that bug report you sent me which referenced
> "do_populate_sysroot_post" and I asked what local modifications you had
> and you said "none" ;-).

I don't use this... we use this for internal developers... so the
error was not using this...

> Does the patch in this thread take care of your needs regarding the
> srctree and clean classes?

Not sure, hoping Zhenhua can take a look.

> For cleanobjs, I can see advantages in merging something like that into
> the core...

....

-M