[OE-core] two variations for distro-specific FILESEXTRAPATHS prepending

[Christopher Larson]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
wrote:

>   just ran across this in the meta-yocto layer but it's a general OE
> question -- the psplash_git.bbappend file contains the following
> distro-conditional line:
>
>   FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend_poky := "${THISDIR}/files:"
>
> and the accompanying files/ directory has, unsurprisingly, a
> poky-specific splash image file, "psplash-poky-img.h".
>
>   but based on how FILESEXTRAPATHS is processed by incorporating all
> of the FILESOVERRIDES variations (one of which is the distro name),
> would it not have been entirely equivalent to have used simply
>
>     FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
>
> and placed that splash file in the accompanying directory files/poky/?
> would these two approaches do the same thing? is there a preferred
> way? that's the only example of that i've seen in all the layers i've
> played with.
>

Both would do the same thing, I'm personally of the opinion that the latter
would be more consistent with how such things are normally done.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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