[OE-core] [CONSOLIDATED PULL 00/27] Ready for Pull after final ACK

[Burton, Ross]

On 23 July 2013 11:07, Daniel Nilsson <daniel at dnil.se> wrote:
>> This is just going to hit us every time we upgrade the package, so if
>> we're going to maintain a non-upstreamed build system then can we a)
>> squash our patches to our patches and b) use a do_configure_prepend()
>> to inject PV into configure.ac?
>
> Agreed, maintaining this in multiple places is not ideal. While still
> learning in the area of OE-core I was not sure what a correct solution
> to the problem would be, hence a "quick fix".

If the patch has symbols such as #VERSION# and #LIBVERSION# then a
do_configure_prepend() function can use sed to change those to the
real numbers based on PV.

>> (oddly I can't see this patch on the oe-core list)
>
> My bad, realized too late that the oe-core list was subscriber only so
> my mail bounded.

Fair enough, glad that mystery was easily solved!

Ross