[OE-core] [PATCH 2/3] toolchain-shar-extract.sh: better default install path for extensible SDK

Brendan Le Foll brendan.le.foll at intel.com
Thu Aug 20 07:34:11 UTC 2015


On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 06:52:49PM +0100, Christopher Larson wrote:
>    On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:32 AM, <[1]brendan.le.foll at intel.com> wrote:
> 
>    From: Brendan Le Foll <[2]brendan.le.foll at intel.com>
>    Extensible SDK cannot be installed as root so by default offer to
>    install it in
>    user's home directory under distro/distro_version replacing the normal
>    SDK
>    version '+' char with a '_' as that's a restricted character for
>    bitbake
>    Signed-off-by: Brendan Le Foll <[3]brendan.le.foll at intel.com>
> 
>    Why not use a metadata variable for the default, replacing with @@ as
>    with the other metadata variables, rather than hardcoding the default
>    in the .sh where it can't be easily overridden by the distro or user?

'~' seemed like a good option for all SDKs/distros seemed like a
decent 'default' to me and the rest is fairly customisable with
SDK_TITLE which has to be set anyways. Or do you mean a different var?

Thanks,
Brendan



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