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

[Burton, Ross]

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.

Ross
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