[OE-core] [CONSOLIDATED PULL (V2) 00/35] Updates, Multilib Patches and other fixes

[Marko Lindqvist]

On 9 January 2013 11:13, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 09:46:57AM +0200, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
>>  What I'm envisioning is that maybe bitbake should provide us with new
>> variable PM or PMV (major version) that's basically PV with last dot
>> and everything after it removed. That would allow us to easily make
>> many such SRC_URIs dynamic, e.g., ".../gtk+/${PM}/gtk+-${PV}.tar.xz".
>> This would be more worthsome if it's something
>> packages.yoctoproject.org too could benefit from.
>
> That looks like SHRT_VER used in some recipes.

 Exactly, except that it would be provided by bitbake, and not
constructed by each recipe itself - less recipe writing work + you
could count on it to always mean same thing.


 - ML