[OE-core] why does sysfsutils-2.1.0.bb set S = "${WORKDIR}/sysfsutils-${PV}"?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Paul Eggleton wrote:

... me snipped ...

> I don't think so, it appears that line goes way back to the initial
> population of the repository. Looks like we could just drop it.

  it *looks* like there are a number of lines like that in oe-core
that are superfluous ... some samples (which i have not verified, i
just selected from brief visual inspection):

recipes-bsp/hostap/hostap-utils.inc:S = "${WORKDIR}/hostap-utils-${PV}"
recipes-bsp/pcmciautils/pcmciautils.inc:S = "${WORKDIR}/pcmciautils-${PV}"
recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc:S = "${WORKDIR}/openssl-${PV}"
recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb:S = "${WORKDIR}/sysvinit-${PV}"
recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc:S = "${WORKDIR}/glib-${PV}"
recipes-core/sysfsutils/sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb:S = "${WORKDIR}/sysfsutils-${PV}"
recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools_3.9.9.bb:S = "${WORKDIR}/mtools-${PV}"
recipes-devtools/intltool/intltool.inc:S = "${WORKDIR}/intltool-${PV}"
recipes-devtools/git/git.inc:S = "${WORKDIR}/git-${PV}"
recipes-extended/psmisc/psmisc.inc:S = "${WORKDIR}/psmisc-${PV}"
recipes-extended/net-tools/net-tools_1.60-26.bb:S = "${WORKDIR}/net-tools-1.60"
recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtk+3_3.16.6.bb:S = "${WORKDIR}/gtk+-${PV}"
recipes-kernel/oprofile/oprofile_1.1.0.bb:S = "${WORKDIR}/oprofile-${PV}"
recipes-multimedia/libid3tag/libid3tag_0.15.1b.bb:S = "${WORKDIR}/libid3tag-${PV}"
... etc etc ...

and probably lots more. do i have at least the right understanding
that any setting of S which eventally equates to
${WORKDIR}/${BPN}-${PV} serves no useful purpose? (not sure about
*-native recipes, though, i have to take a closer look at those to see
if they fit the pattern.)

rday

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