[OE-core] oddities related to "_append" and "_prepend" in oe-core

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Khem Raj wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> >> meta/classes/multilib.bbclass:PACKAGEFUNCS_append = "do_package_qa_multilib"
> >
> > That one is a bit weird.  It looks broken but, presumably, it must work
> > otherwise someone would have noticed.  I don't know offhand what is
> > making it work.
>
> insane.bbclass:PACKAGEFUNCS += " do_package_qa "
>
> and it gets appended after that so it works, but I think adding a
> space in the append above is a wise thing to do.

  that is *exactly* the kind of thing that makes using oe-core code
examples such a minefield.  nothing personal.  :-)

  perhaps i'll start collecting style guide suggestions.

rday

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