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Subject: Re: [Bitbake-dev] A new bitbake extension: .bbappend files
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On 07/16/10 16:25, Richard Purdie wrote:
> For the specific case of paths, I have wondered if there would be a way
> to leverage help from bitbake in creating a sane set of search paths but
> I'm still thinking about that. This extension is good enough in its own
> right in my opinion to be worthwhile.
This might be true, but solving the general path problem would be
much more useful.
If you want to add a new version of e.g. gcc in your ovlerlay,
you have to pull over the whole gcc directory with all its .inc classes.
This can't be solved by .bbapend, or am I missing something?

Regards,
   Detlef