[oe] empty strings

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks
<fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
> ping.
>
> people don't care?
> I feel there are some issues in the examples below (and some easy
> cleanup actions).

If you dont generalize and pick and test a recipe at a time that would
be much sane way to go with such changes.
Sometimes they might look obvious but they may not be. So my humble
request is to go recipe by recipe instead of
some seding and grepping.

>
> 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
>>
>
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