[OE-core] is standard for COMPATIBLE_MACHINE to use "()" or not?

[Mike Looijmans]

On 05-03-15 09:43, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>    a style guide thing ... it appears that COMPATIBLE_MACHINE happily
> acccepts a matching RE within parentheses or not, is there a
> preference?
>
>    also, in checking that, i ran across this in oe-core:
>
> linux-yocto_3.14.bb:COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "qemuarm|qemuarm64|qemux86|qemuppc|qemumips|qemumips64|qemux86-64"
> linux-yocto_3.19.bb:COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "qemuarm|qemuarm64|qemux86|qemuppc|qemumips|qemumips64|qemux86-64"
> linux-yocto-dev.bb:COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "(qemuarm|qemux86|qemuppc|qemumips|qemumips64|qemux86-64)"

The regex should have been "qemu(arm|x86|ppc|mips|mips64|x86-64)"

And since "x86-64" already matches "x86", that could have been omitted.

> where the first two recipes list "qemuarm64" but the dev version
> doesn't ... is that deliberate?

Probably not, but "qemuarm64" matches "qemuarm" already.



Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
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