[oe] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: define shared PERSISTENT_DIR

[Martin Jansa]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 04:25:56PM +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
> * import from poky
>   commit 6a11cf7dfe930461a6660e3b783b546fa2634900
>   Author: Richard Purdie <rpurdie at linux.intel.com>
>   Date:   Sun May 31 22:23:30 2009 +0100
> * we had CACHE var pointing to machine specific dir since
>   commit caf077679022f37ce55d758101f130e4e93bd7b5
>   Author: Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net>
>   Date:   Mon Nov 20 17:40:20 2006 +0000
> 
> * current bitbake is looking for cache dir like this:
>   cachedir = (bb.data.getVar("PERSISTENT_DIR", d, True) or
>               bb.data.getVar("CACHE", d, True))
>   which without PERSISTENT_DIR defined picks machine-specific CACHE dir
>   so LOCALCOUNT numbers in SRCPV keeps rolling with every MACHINE switch
>   in same builddir :/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>

ping?

2nd version which moved it outside TMPDIR
[oe] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: define shared PERSISTENT_DIR and point it outside TMPDIR
was sort of rejected:
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2011-March/000298.html

but this part without moving it outside TMPDIR is still valid and I'll
push it after month of review if nobody objects :).

> ---
>  conf/bitbake.conf |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/conf/bitbake.conf b/conf/bitbake.conf
> index dcc5c70..53bb7b7 100644
> --- a/conf/bitbake.conf
> +++ b/conf/bitbake.conf
> @@ -294,6 +294,8 @@ FILESDIR = "${@bb.which(d.getVar('FILESPATH', 1), '.')}"
>  
>  TMPDIR = "${TOPDIR}/tmp"
>  CACHE = "${TMPDIR}/cache${@['', '/' + str(bb.data.getVar('MACHINE', d, 1))][bool(bb.data.getVar('MACHINE', d, 1))]}"
> +# The persistent cache should be shared by all builds
> +PERSISTENT_DIR = "${TMPDIR}/cache"
>  CO_DIR = "${DL_DIR}"
>  CVSDIR = "${CO_DIR}/cvs"
>  SVNDIR = "${CO_DIR}/svn"
> -- 
> 1.7.4.1
> 

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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