[oe] [PATCH 2/2] conf/bitbake.conf: add DISTRO_ARCH and MACHINE_DISTRO_ARCH

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 17:54, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 17:04 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> We have a set of products that reuse a common distro definition but
>> has different needs on a small set of packages. To avoid having them
>> all rebuild we set those to DISTRO_ARCH and the ones that depends on
>> machine and distro to MACHINE_DISTRO_ARCH avoiding a lot of rebuilding
>> and CPU time.
>
> That sounds to me like you're using ${DISTRO} for a purpose that was not
> really intended.  I do have some sympathy for the scenario you mention
> but I'm not convinced that adding these new ARCHS for everyone is the
> right answer.
>
> Obviously you're welcome to bash PACKAGE_ARCHS any way you want in your
> own DISTRO.conf file and I think that's probably the right place for
> this sort of thing rather than putting it in the global bitbake.conf and
> causing extra complexity for everyone.  Or maybe you could consider
> using ${MACHINE}, which is already a PACKAGE_ARCH, to discriminate
> between the different packages.

Adding it to my distro seems to solve my problem. The problem of using
MACHINE is that I need it to be rebuild if DISTRO changes, hence
MACHINE_DISTRO_ARCH.

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