[OE-core] want to confirm that include/require is a pure textual substitution

[Khem Raj]

On (08/03/12 17:12), Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   currently writing a tutorial involving OE and working up to yocto
> and want to verify a couple things.  i'm reading the OE manual,
> section on include/require:
> 
> http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/usermanual.html#recipes_require
> 
> and want to verify that that is purely a textual inclusion, so that
> *anything* that is common across a number of .bb files can be
> centralized in a .inc file, correct?

yes but dont miss the real difference between include and require

> 
>   and on that note, a larger question about the OE manual itself.  in
> that same section, there's a reference to the cherokee package, and
> the alleged .bb file:
> 
> PR = "r7"
> 
> SRC_URI_append = "file://configure.patch \
>                   file://Makefile.in.patch \
>                   file://Makefile.cget.patch \
>                   file://util.patch"
> 
> require cherokee.inc
> 
> do_configure() {
>         gnu-configize
>         oe_runconf
>         sed -i 's:-L\$:-L${STAGING_LIBDIR} -L\$:' ${S}/*libtool
> }
> 
>   unsurprisingly, that's out of date as the current .bb file is
> simply:
> 
> require cherokee.inc
> 
> PR = "${INC_PR}.0"
> 
> SRC_URI[md5sum] = "21b01e7d45c0e82ecc0c4257a9c27feb"
> SRC_URI[sha256sum] =
> "042b5687b1a3db3ca818167548ce5d32c35e227c6640732dcb622a6f4a078b7d"
> 
> but that's not my point.  since i want my tutorial to walk someone
> through various files, given the split into the oe-core and
> meta-openembedded layers, i'm thinking of using examples strictly out
> of oe-core since there's more than enough there.  but the cherokee
> example is in the meta-openembedded layer, and that distinction
> doesn't appear to be made early in the OE manual anywhere.
> 

yes manual covers what we call classic OE

>   is there a plan to revise that manual to incorporate the
> distinction?  is there a newer manual elsewhere?
> 

I think yocto's manual are more uptodate w.r.t. OE-Core
that OE manual should also be updated probably
covering layers. we need volunteers 

> rday
> 
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