[oe] Getting Started -Makefile

[Rod Whitby]

Florian Boor wrote:
> Tim Bird schrieb:
>> This is nice.  Can someone tell me why this isn't
>> the default behavior of bitbake now?  (I'm honestly
>> not trolling :-)   There must be some good reason
>> to allow bitbake to be used outside of a build
>> directory.  Make (which bitbake resembles
>> in some aspects), is sensitive to it's starting
>> directory.  Why not bitbake?
> 
> that's a pretty good point. In my opinion the fact that you need to set
> environment variables in addition to your configuration files is a pain anyway.
> I would expect bitbake to search for all configuration information in
> $PWD/conf/*.conf and that's it. That would reduce the initial overhead and makes
> it _much_ easier for new users to get along with OE.

If that was enacted, then the need for any Makefile support for building
individual packages would be removed (literally - I would remove those
targets from the Makefiles I maintain).

-- Rod