From: Rich Pixley <rich.pixley@palm.com>
To: "openembedded-devel@openembedded.org"
<openembedded-devel@openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: getVar. setVar, "d", etc.
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:35:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A7BD7C.8050909@palm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202166317.4788.105.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:05 -0800, Rich Pixley wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to figure out how to set bitbake variables from within python
>> escapes but I'm not having much luck.
>>
>> Could someone please explain the use of the "d" variable in the getVar
>> and setVar calls? Or point me towards enlightening pieces of code or
>> documentation?
>>
>
> d is the data object you want to set the variables within or get the
> variable from.
Ok, so where does it come from?
Eg, in db3_3.2.9.bb, in do_package(), there's a getVar and a setVar but
it's not at all clear there "d" is assigned. Is it just a conventional
global? What other conventional globals might one want to pass to
getVar or setVar?
--rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-05 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-04 22:05 getVar. setVar, "d", etc Rich Pixley
2008-02-04 23:05 ` Richard Purdie
2008-02-05 1:35 ` Rich Pixley [this message]
2008-02-05 2:37 ` Rich Pixley
2008-02-05 22:03 ` Richard Purdie
2008-02-05 23:13 ` Rich Pixley
2008-02-06 2:29 ` Rich Pixley
2008-02-06 12:18 ` Richard Purdie
2008-02-06 18:54 ` K. Richard Pixley
2008-02-07 0:54 ` Richard Purdie
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