[oe] [PATCH 2/2] Renamed prefix_native, bindir_native, etc using camelCaps

Richard Purdie rpurdie at rpsys.net
Thu Mar 18 19:42:17 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 18:49 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> On 18-03-10 18:29, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 04:37 +0100, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> >> On Thursday 18 March 2010 02:31:11 Douglas Royds wrote:
> >>>     - Avoids clashing with the machine override when MACHINE=native
> >>>     - bindir_cross similarly renamed for consistency
> >>
> >> Thank you for that much work. I think we established the usage of '-' instead 
> >> of '_' to avoid clashes with the override detection though.
> > 
> > I just noticed this problem. It makes me very very nervous to introduce
> > yet another variable naming convention, particularly one we don't use
> > anywhere else :/.
> > 
> > Might it be simpler to rename the native machine? Using "native" in the
> > override namespace is asking for trouble :(.
> 
> rename it to 'host'?

Its still not a good name to have in overrides. We really need something
meaningful but not generic e.g. "localmachine"

Cheers,

Richard








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