[oe] USE flags mumbling

Chris Larson clarson at kergoth.com
Thu Jul 1 16:50:11 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Graeme Gregory <dp at xora.org.uk> wrote:

> We already have BBCLASSEXTENDS which modifies ${PN} of a package and
> can use overrides to change behaviors of recipes.
>
> Maybe USE flags could be implemented in a similar fashing.
>
> DISTRO_USE = "nossl nox11"
>
> EXTRA_OECONF_append_use-nossl = "--disable-ssl"
>
> ${PN} of the recipe becomes XXXX-nossl


Any particular reason to not leverage the existing DISTRO_FEATURES,
MACHINE_FEATURES, COMBINED_FEATURES for this?
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics



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