[OE-core] tweaking insane.bbclass to handle MIPS SEAD-3?

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday 19 April 2013 06:53:59 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 April 2013 13:14:51 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >   if one created a BSP for the MIPS SEAD-3, where would it go? i
> > > 
> > > notice there's no current MIPS-related OE layer anywhere. i'm
> > > assuming http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/ is the
> > > canonical source these days for layer locations, yes? the only
> > > MIPS match one gets there is for the qemumips machine.
> > 
> > I guess there isn't one yet, so if you'd like to create and publish
> > one, go for it. There's some info on how that should be done in the
> > OE layers FAQ:
> > http://www.openembedded.org/Layers_FAQ
> 
>   short note -- the wiki page "Creating a new Layer":
> 
> http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Creating_a_new_Layer
> 
> seems out of date, in that the "Best practices" section refers to
> qt4.inc and the QT_SQL_DRIVER_FLAGS variable:
> 
> "An example here would be the way Qt 4 database support plugins are
> configured - OE-core doesn't have MySQL or PostgreSQL, however meta-oe
> does, so meta-oe uses .bbappends to modify a variable
> QT_SQL_DRIVER_FLAGS to enable the appropriate plugins. This variable
> was added to qt4.inc in OE-core specifically to allow meta-oe to be
> able to control which plugins are built."
> 
>   i don't think so:
> 
> $ git show 64c6887ca19d2ce52e538186c93163dddf68438f
> commit 64c6887ca19d2ce52e538186c93163dddf68438f
> Author: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
> Date:   Wed Apr 10 15:57:59 2013 +0000
> 
>     qt4: remove bbappend content
> 
>     These changes to Qt's configuration need to be applied in distro layers,
> not in meta-oe.
> 
>     (We have to preserve the PRINC value to avoid PR going backwards.)
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>
> 
>   might want to pick a different example.

Ah yes, I looked at that recently and made a mental note to change it which I 
then promptly forgot. It's fixed now (using the same example, but mentioning 
where the appends should go), thanks for pointing this out.

Cheers,
Paul

-- 

Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre