[OE-core] [PATCH][RFC] base.bbclass: Introduce EXTRA_CONF_PACKAGECONFIG variable

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 11:28:59AM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Fri, 2016-03-25 at 11:50 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 12:40:31PM +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> > > On 27 February 2016 at 22:09, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > * add separate variable for configuration options generated from
>> > > >   PACKAGECONFIG setting, this helps other bbclasses and recipes
>> > > >   to take advantage of PACKAGECONFIG mechanism, without including
>> > > >   other options from EXTRA_OECONF
>> > > > * e.g. meta-qt5 recipes are abusing EXTRA_OECONF to get options
>> > > >   from PACKAGECONFIG:
>> > > >   EXTRA_QMAKEVARS_PRE +=
>> > > >   but with
>> > > >   conf/distro/include/no-static-libs.inc
>> > > >   it means getting --disable-static as invalid option inside
>> > > >   EXTRA_QMAKEVARS_PRE as reported by Alexandre Belloni who tried
>> > > >   to use poky with meta-qt5.
>> > > > * once we migrate all bbclasses and recipes to
>> > > > EXTRA_CONF_PACKAGECONFIG
>> > > >   we should also restrict EXTRA_OECONF append only to
>> > > > autotools.bbclass
>> > > >   like I did for cmake.bbclass
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > Sorry, some of us have been a bit busy trying to get M3 stable.
>> > >  This does
>> > > look good and I'm for squeezing it into M3.
>> >
>> > Any update on squeezing this?
>> >
>> > meta-qt5 is still broken with default poky config
>>
>> I'm a little confused, was there going to be another version with some
>> tweaked variable names?
>
> Was there some agreement about variable name?

meta-qt5 5.6 is using this so we need a final decision if it will be
merged or not. I am in favor it as I think it is clear enough.

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