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Subject: Re: Splitting meta-oe?
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:58:17 +0100
Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 14:14 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > > But that kind of mechanism seems highly prone to breakage and
> > > likely to
> > > be highly contentious even if it was shown to be reliable, so it
> > > may not
> > > get beyond a "that'd be nice" thing for me.
> > >=20
> > > Unless someone else has already implemented it and I'm just not
> > > aware of
> > > how to use it?=C2=A0 :-)
> > >  =20
> >=20
> > meta-freescale (iirc) does this, conditionally adds
> > sub-layers to BBLAYERS based on what other layers are already
> > enabled. =20
>=20
> The approach used by meta-freescale works with older releases.
> BBFILES_DYNAMIC [1] (supported by bitbake 1.36/Yocto 2.4) is a bit more
> robust.
>=20
> [1] https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/140532/
>=20

That's interesting. Is it possible to express dependencies on more than one
layer for a group of recipes with this mechanism?

Regards,
Andreas