Re: [PATCH 1/2] toolchain-scripts.bbclass: Allow sourcing of subscript for environment

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 19:53 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 10/9/14, 7:41 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com> wrote:
> >> On 10/9/14, 4:53 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Sometimes we require extra environment settings to be available on the
> >>> environment for proper SDK work. This were done, in past, using
> >>> '_append' tasks however with the split of the environment in a
> >>> canadian package this has been broken.
> >>>
> >>> The easier and more flexible solution is to use environment subscripts
> >>> which are sources by the main script. These are now looked at:
> >>>
> >>>    $OECORE_NATIVE_SYSROOT/environment-setup.d/*.sh
> >>>
> >>> and sourced.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
> >>
> >>
> >> I really like this approach.  However, is there any way for the subscripts
> >> to be arch specific?
> >
> > I think we can plan on that but this would be 1.8 material IMO. This
> > is enough for what we need today and can easily be improved in future
> > work. What do you think?
> >
> 
> I think it's a fairly low risk change..  I'm certainly not against it.

We can easily add the target part too, I've just sent out a patch which
does this. I do agree that this is probably a good way forward for being
able to extend the scripts.

Cheers,

Richard