[OE-core] wanting to clarify bitbake parsing of all .conf files

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Robert P. J. Day
<rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>  first, i'm assuming those conf files are processed in exactly that
> order, right?  and second, all of that parsing and including is done
> and completed before reading the first line of the task or recipe file
> that's the bitbake target, right?

Yes, and yes. bitbake.conf is parsed, which becomes the configuration
metadata. From there, base.bbclass and the classes in INHERIT get
parsed and added to that, as well. Finally, that configuration
metadata flows down into the recipes when they're parsed.
-- 
Christopher Larson