[OE-core] [PATCH][V2] u-boot: state the MACHINE when skipping u-boot

Laszlo Papp lpapp at kde.org
Thu Aug 1 16:52:13 UTC 2013


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 1 August 2013 17:33, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> >> >> I'm not sure what you meant here.  Do you mean a situation where the
> >> >> local.conf says MACHINE=foo and the user also sets MACHINE=foo in the
> >> >> environment?
> >> >
> >> > Yes.
> >>
> >> But there's nothing wrong with the user doing that at all.
> >
> >
> > Why do you think compilers warn in such use cases? Because they cannot
> know
> > if you are doing something silly, or something unintentional. It might
> just
> > well be that the user wanted to type something else, but got confused in
> > which case he might get a hard to debug issue later, or even if not
> hard, it
> > is additional issue due to his.
>
> Please provide the message you preferred so it can be seen and
> discussed. An example might make it easier to get what you really
> mean.
>

"Warning: "foo", specified manually on the command line, is the same as in
the /path/to/the/relevant/background/file.stuff file"

Please do not hang on the grammar as I am a non-native speakers.
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