[oe] devshell - setting up additional environment variable

[Chris Larson]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:48 AM, John Stirling <ap.john.stirling at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 8 November 2012 14:09, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:03 AM, John Stirling
> > <ap.john.stirling at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Can someone advise best way to set up additional environment variables
> > > automatically when invoking devshell -
> > >
> > > We used to define a do_devshell_prepend() function but that doesn't
> seem
> > to
> > > work any more.
> >
> >
> > See OE_TERMINAL_EXPORTS -
> >
> >
> https://github.com/openembedded/oe-core/blob/master/meta/classes/terminal.bbclass#L7
> > --
> >
>
> Am I correct in thinking that would set the extra variables up for every
> devshell rather than for a specific package ? Or am I missing something ?
>
> I'd ideally like to set them on a per package basis rather than globally
> for all devshells. We used to be able to do this in the .bb file via
> do_devshell_prepend().


No, you're missing something. The class gets inherited globally, but the
task is still run in recipe context. You should be just fine in appending
to OE_TERMINAL_EXPORTS in a recipe, if you really need to (though it seems
a little odd :).
-- 
Christopher Larson