[oe] [OE-core] Heads up: _remove in recipe namespace - check your layers

Denys Dmytriyenko denis at denix.org
Mon Sep 2 21:41:38 UTC 2013


On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 10:54:20AM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> With the recent addition of a _remove operator into BitBake in master [1] any 
> use of _remove_ within a name or _remove at the end of a name within recipe 
> namespace (i.e. function and variable names) needs to be changed to avoid 
> unexpected behaviour. This change is now in master and will be in the upcoming 
> release. Please check the layers you maintain and change any instances of 
> these to avoid the use of _remove. You can use the following command to find 
> these (of course ignoring anything that's not in a recipe, bbclass, inc file 
> etc.):
> 
>   git grep _remove[^a-zA-Z]
> 
> In particular I've checked a number of layers that I have fetched locally, and 
> references exist in meta-arago-distro and meta-angstrom, so these will need to 
> be fixed as soon as possible.

Paul,

Thanks for the heads up! While meta-arago is currently based on Dylan, I've
made the necessary change in my layer so it will be ready for the master.
Thanks.

--
Denys



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