[oe] Patch "Don't inherit siteinfo in base.bbclass" breaks SlugOS

[Chris Larson]

Damn, I fixed all the recipes using SITEINFO, but missed distros, sorry
about that.
I'd suggest doing INHERIT += "siteinfo" in the distro .conf, for now.
 Again, sorry about the breakage.

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Mike Westerhof <mike at mwester.net> wrote:

> The following commit breaks SlugOS.  I apologize for starting a new
> thread on this, but I am unable to find the original discussion on the
> OE ml (but I probably missed it in the several hundred that piled up in
> my inbox this week).
>
> ------------
> commit a215c2f283476776567506c2e3f969c48f7e5e3d
> Author: Chris Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
> Date:   Tue Mar 9 16:54:57 2010 -0700
>
>    Don't inherit siteinfo in base.bbclass
>
>    Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie at linux.intel.com>
>    Acked-by: Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin at juszkiewicz.com.pl>
>    Signed-off-by: Chris Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
> ------------
>
> In a nutshell, the ixp4xx can run in either endianess, and SlugOS builds
> both a BE and an LE image.  Removing "inherit siteinfo" from
> base.bbclass causes parsing failures in every recipe.
>
> As an example of the issue, consider this lines in
> conf/distro/include/slugos.conf:
>
> IMAGE_BASENAME = "${@['slugos${SITEINFO_ENDIANESS}',
> 'ucslugc'][bb.data.getVar('TARGET_OS', d, 1) == 'linux-uclibc']}"
>
> and
>
> DISTRO_NAME ?=
> "INVALID-${SITEINFO_ENDIANESS}-${ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET}-${TARGET_OS}"
>
> There may be other locations (such as recipes, etc) where this problem
> may exist, these were just the two locations I found easily.
>
> Any ideas how to address this?
>
> -Mike (mwester)
>
>
>
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