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Subject: Re: recipe simplification questions
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Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks
> <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> While browsing through a recipe I stumbled upon the following two functions:
[snip]
>> do_install() {
>>        make install DESTDIR=${D}
>> }
>>
> 
> this if used in a recipe which inherits autotools could be for getting
> parallelism out of context during install but not during compile.
> again this kind of stuff should be avoided.

Not true (but I had to double check just now, so it's quite possible 
some others have assumed this behavior).  If we look at bitbake.conf:
EXTRA_OEMAKE_prepend_task_do_compile = "${PARALLEL_MAKE} "
EXTRA_OEMAKE_prepend_task-compile = "${PARALLEL_MAKE} "

So in the case of literally having DESTDIR=${D}, these can just go away. 
  There are some annoying cases however where it's not DESTDIR but some 
other variable.  IMHO, it's questionable if it'd be cleaner to do a 
custom one line do_install vs EXTRA_OEMAKE_append_task-do_install = 
"PREFIX=${D}"

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation