[oe] empty strings

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

ping.

people don't care?
I feel there are some issues in the examples below (and some easy
cleanup actions).

Frans

2010/10/14 Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com>:
> triggered by a remark on irc, I decided to do a grep on "" in all our recipes.
> That gave some interesting observations. I've fixed a few things from
> the type X += "" or X_append = ""
> See the patch set I just send.
>
> However there are also a few things that are not so obvious and for
> which I want to ask your opinion, Some seem useless, others are
> probably needed, but wanted to raise all issues that could be
> unneeded.
> Note that the recipes are just examples, ofthen there are more recipes
> that have the same pattern.
>
> libvorbis/libvorbis_1.2.3.bb:EXTRA_OECONF = ""
> aircrack/aircrack_2.1.bb:DEPENDS = ""
> apt/apt-native.inc:PACKAGES = ""  (this is a native recipe, isn't this
> always the case for native recipes ? )
> bind/bind_9.3.1.bb:RPEDENDS = "" (this one has a DEPENDS on openssl, I
> would expect it also to rdepend on openssl in this case)
> c3110x/cx3110x_1.1.bb:export LDFLAGS = ""
> classpath/classpath.inc:RPROVIDES_${PN} = ""
> fuse/fuse-module_2.7.4.bb:      LDFLAGS=""
> glibc/glibc_2.10.1.bb:  CPPFLAGS="" oe_runconf (I was wondering of the
> resetting CPPFLAGS is useful, didn't really dig into this one)
> gs/gs-fonts-std_8.11.bb:HOMEPAGE = ""
> gsoap/gsoap-native_2.7.13.bb:EXTRA_OEMAKE = ""
> ipkg/ipkg-native.inc:PROVIDES = ""  (hm, no provides)
> meta/staging-linkage_1.0.bb:SRC_URI = ""
> psmisc/psmisc.inc:FILES_${PN} = "" (guess all files are added to other
> packages, if that is so, should there be a line like this?)
> tmake/tmake_1.11.bb:FILES = ""
> ttf-fonts/ttf-hunkyfonts_0.3.0.bb:RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-dbg = "" (seems
> somewhat strange to me)
>
>
> this one also looked weird; guess it is ok but found it odd that these are reset
> hplip/hplip_2.8.10.bb:EXTRA_OEMAKE = 'BUILD_SYS="" HOST_SYS=""'
>
> I would like opinions on which of these constructs is useful and which
> not. (and yes, I know an assingment may be used to nullify an earlier
> assingment in an .inc file and I am also aware of cases where there is
> something like X_virtclass_native = "" which is used to nullify
> non-native assignments to X.
>
> Enjoy, Frans
>