[oe] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: don't append MACHINE_OVERRIDES to OVERRIDES when it's empty

[Chris Larson]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Maupin, Chase <chase.maupin at ti.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
> > [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
> > Martin Jansa
> > Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 2:25 PM
> > To: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
> > Subject: [oe] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: don't append MACHINE_OVERRIDES to
> > OVERRIDES when it's empty
> >
> > * empty MACHINE_OVERRIDES adds :: to OVERRIDES (then in FILESPATH skips
> >   every directory after this)
> > * strip() is needed to remove space in case some distribution has ie
> >   MACHINE_OVERRIDES ?= ""
> >   and then
> >   MACHINE_OVERRIDES += ""
> >   or
> >   MACHINE_OVERRIDES ?= "${MACHINE_CLASS}", where MACHINE_CLASS is empty
> > again
>
> I saw this issue in my overlay of having a "::" in my OVERRIDES which
> caused my parsing to fail in angstrom.inc.  Applying this fix from Martin
> resolves the parsing issue.  My OVERRIDES appear to be in the correct order
> with this change:


Can you explain this?  "caused my parsing to fail" is not very useful
information.  What exactly failed?
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics