[OE-core] why would a BBFILES variable refer to a "classes" directory?

Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth.com
Sun Dec 6 15:53:17 UTC 2015


On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
wrote:

>   possibly a stupid question, but i'm looking at a publicly available
> OE layer and, in layer.conf, there is a setting for BBFILES that pulls
> in a number of subdirectories and ends with:
>
>         ... snip ...
>         ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend \
>         ${LAYERDIR}/classes/*.bbclass"
>
>   i am unfamiliar with BBFILES used to include references to a classes
> directory, and that layer.conf file already includes the earlier line:
>
>   BBPATH := "${LAYERDIR}:${BBPATH}"
>
>   can someone explain what BBFILES has to do with defining additional
> classes in a layer? thanks muchly.
>

Nothing. It's not accomplishing anything.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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