[OE-core] couple questions about proper PACKAGECONFIG usage

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2016, Burton, Ross wrote:

> On 29 October 2016 at 09:08, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>         actually, that might be it for this post ... am i missing any other
>       subtleties involving PACKAGECONFIG worth mentioning? another
>       PACAKGECONFIG-related post coming shortly, but it's more focused so
>       i'll post it separately.
>
> The only interesting thing is that the behaviour has changed
> recently: the PACKAGECONFIG implementation now sets
> PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS and it's up to the recipe and/or class to do
> what it needs with it.  autotools.bbclass adds it to EXTRA_OECONF,
> cmake.bbclass adds it to EXTRA_OECMAKE, and so on.  In the past it
> was added directly to EXTRA_OECONF but that made integration with
> non-autotools harder.

  yes, i'd noticed that, definitely going to add that to my
explanation.

rday

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