[OE-core] ALLOW_EMPTY versus ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}? a couple clarifications

[Martin Jansa]

Can you please add ALLOW_EMPTY to sanity check like R* variables are now?


On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 09:10 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   just trying to clarify the gory details of the ALLOW_EMPTY setting.
> > first, across several .bb files, there is a mixture of these two:
> >
> > ALLOW_EMPTY = "1"
> > ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
> >
> >   what's the difference?  what does the first one represent if you're
> > not specific?  does that cover *all* generated packages?
>
> FWIW, a package name should generally be specified. I've just sent a
> patch to OE-Core updating the various references.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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