[OE-core] [PATCH] autotools-brokensep: Mark recipes with broken separate build dir support

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Thu Feb 27 20:13:28 UTC 2014


On 27 February 2014 20:06, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>> On 27 February 2014 18:01, Richard Purdie
>> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> +inherit autotools
>>> +B = "${S}"
>>
>> Why is this preferable to directly setting B in the recipe, which
>> seems more obvious to me.
>
> I see one benefit for it being easier to grep for; so we know this is
> one recipe which ought to be fixed and that rely on autotools.

I'm apprehensive of adding a class whose sole purpose is to set a
variable that can be set in the recipe itself, and will be another
class to explain/document for the future.  Grepping for an assignment
to B is almost as simple too.

Ross



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