Re: [PATCH 1/1] curl: fix native dependency

[Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 15:55 +0800, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >From: Richard Purdie [mailto:rpurdie@linux.intel.com]
> >http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=rpurdie/bitbake&id=c77410305f
> >e736aa195ce720c8317b39da057052
> 
> yes, that looks a clear fix.

In the absence of Chris saying no, I've merged this into Poky so it
doesn't get lost.

> Actually my original thought was a little bit different. Atm I thought that only one
> appendix should take effect, i.e:
> 
> FOO = "A"
> FOO_append_OVERA = "B"
> FOO_append_OVERB = "C"
> 
> If OVERB is higher priority than OVERA, the result would be "AC" then.
> 
> Now obviously my earlier thought is wrong. Every _append appends a new
> value if the override is valid. :-)

Right, there is just the question of ordering.

> I also thought that there's no ordering constraint in this design. either "A B C"
> or "A C B" could work, unless the appendix itself has order constraint, say 
> a patch sequence. But I'm not sure whether there's real usage and we need
> to handle it or not.

I think its not something we should worry too much about, just something
to be aware of.

I do still think we should support FOO_append_OVERA_OVERB_OVERC though
perhaps we should leave a bug open on that?

Cheers,

Richard