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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> 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.

Indeed; I agree with you now.

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