[OE-core] more pedantry -- looking to clarify layers definition, BBPATH, BBFILES, etc.
Martin Jansa
martin.jansa at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 09:28:40 UTC 2012
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 11:23:32AM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 01:59:48PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > (most of this is sort of self-evident but it's not documented as
> > well as it could be so i just want to make sure i have it exactly
> > right.)
> >
> > snippets of some layer.conf files:
> >
> > oe-core:
> >
> > BBPATH .= ":${LAYERDIR}"
> > BBFILES += "${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bb"
> >
> > meta-hob:
> >
> > BBPATH := "${BBPATH}:${LAYERDIR}"
> > BBFILES := "${BBFILES} ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bb"
> >
> > meta-yocto:
> >
> > BBPATH := "${LAYERDIR}:${BBPATH}"
> > BBFILES := "${BBFILES} ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bb \
> > ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend"
> >
> > note how meta-hob *appends* itself to BBPATH, while meta-yocto
> > *prepends* itself. is there no possibility that this will cause some
> > confusion based on how BBPATH is used to resolve the location of class
> > or conf files? i realize you should try to avoid that sort of
> > conflict but it still seems possible that someone might choose the
> > names of some files badly and the unpredictable ordering in BBPATH
> > will cause grief, no?
>
> Yes, order is important and prepending makes it harder for person
> writting bblayers.conf to influence it:
>
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-July/024914.html
>
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-February/018115.html:
> BBFILE_PRIORITY controls recipe priority. BBLAYERS order controls
> BBPATH order which in turn controls bbclass/config priority, as things
> stand today.
>
> See also this thread for more details:
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2011-May/032387.html
And this one
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2011-August/007387.html
Cheers,
--
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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