[OE-core] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: add BB_CURRENT_MC to OVERRIDES

[Ming Liu]

Arha, good suggestion, will do that in V2.

//Ming Liu

2018-06-11 10:51 GMT+02:00 Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com>:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
> > [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
> > Richard Purdie
> > Sent: den 10 juni 2018 21:29
> > To: Ming Liu <liu.ming50 at gmail.com>; OE-core <openembedded-
> > core at lists.openembedded.org>
> > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: add BB_CURRENT_MC to
> > OVERRIDES
> >
> > On Sun, 2018-06-10 at 20:45 +0200, Ming Liu wrote:
> > > I saw your comment as follows:
> > >
> > > > This adds "" in OVERRIDES in the default case. Whilst I think (but
> > > am not 100% sure) we fixed bitbake not to break on such a value, I'm
> > > not convinced adding empty elements to it is a good idea and this did
> > > used to break things.
> > >
> > > No, it will add "default" to OVERRIDES in the default case.
> >
> > That is even worse, we do not want to add "default" to overrides since
> > any variable containing that word would then be at risk of weird
> > breakage.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Richard
>
> You could add it as ":mc-${BB_CURRENT_MC}:" to OVERRIDES to avoid the
> ambiguity, similar to the pn- and df- prefixes used for recipe names
> and distro features.
>
> //Peter
>
>
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