[oe] [PATCH] classes/base.bbclass: add INCOMPATIBLE_MACHINE

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/7/8 Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org>:
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 08:49 +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>> The only concern I have is the name COMPATIBLE_TARGET
>> for me TARGET is the board so COMPATIBLE_TARGET for me more or less
>> equates to COMPATIBLE_MACHINE.
>> What about COMPATIBLE_ARCH or COMPATIBLE_ARCHITECTURE?
>
> I think the variable that you want to match against (in the specific
> case of cross.bbclass) is ${TARGET_SYS}.  Having the matching variable
> be named COMPATIBLE_ARCH would imply that it's going to match
> ${HOST_ARCH}, which obviously isn't what you want.
>
> I would have thought that confusion with ${MACHINE} should be minimal
> since that nomenclature is already quite well established in OE.  But
> you could name it COMPATIBLE_TARGET_SYS if you wanted to make the name
> completely explicit.
>
Patch posted. I named it COMPATIBLE_TARGET_SYS and compare with TARGET_SYS.
Tested it, and for me it works like a charm.

However just after posting I noticed we also have TARGET_ARCH.
I'm a little bit lost wrt the differences between these.
Let me know if I need to move to *ARCH

Frans