[OE-core] [Openembedded-architecture] Automatic -dbg FILES generation

[Christopher Larson]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> I don't think I'm alone in being a bit frustrated with the effort
> needed to get FILES_${PN}-dbg correct. I've just posted a patch to oe
> -core which automates this and means we can drop 99% of the cases where
> we set this variable.
>
> I'm giving a heads up here since this is an architectural change to the
> way the system works and wanted people to be aware of it. I'm hoping it
> will be welcomed and not too controversial.
>
> Setting FILES_${PN}-dbg doesn't harm anything, it just becomes
> unnecessary in most cases.
>

I'll just say hell yes :) Been hoping one of the implementations of this
would get merged, glad to see it happening.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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