[oe] [Bitbake-dev] A new bitbake extension: .bbappend files

[Michael Smith]

Hi Richard,

Does this do anything different than amendrecipes.bbclass?

Mike

Richard Purdie wrote:
> The idea is that if bitbake finds any X.bbappend files, when it loads
> X.bb, it will also include these files after it parses the base .bb file
> (but before finalise and the anonymous methods run). This means that
> the .bbappend file can poke around and do whatever it might want to the
> recipe to customise it.