[oe] [PATCH 4/4] Renamed prefix_native, bindir_native, etc using hyphens

Richard Purdie rpurdie at rpsys.net
Thu Mar 18 21:13:42 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 09:48 +1300, Douglas Royds wrote:
> Any renaming of base_prefix, exec_prefix, base_bindir, target_datadir, 
> &c is a separate matter. Note that some of these names are imposed on us 
> by Autotools convention. This is why these variables are in lower case 
> in the first place:
> 
>     http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html#Directory-Variables

Exactly, this is why they are as they are and I don't think changing
this is practical.

It would in fact be more feasible to switch to a "new" character for
overrides in bitbake...

Cheers,

Richard






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