From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Poky Project <poky@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: require statement does not honor .bbappend
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:27:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2BE0D7.7040101@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328263676.3895.86.camel@ted>
On 2012-02-03 03:07, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 16:22 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> This is really a bitbake problem, but I'll bring it up here.
>>
>> I have a statement like this in one of my recipes:
>> require xyz.bb
>>
>> If I also have within my layers a xyz.bbappend file, it gets
>> processed when I build xyz, e.g.
>> % bitbake xyz
>> but is ignored when I only 'require' that recipe.
>>
>> Should it not be always processed?
>
> No, as designed and implemented you can't bbappend to anything being
> used as an include (or require), only the final .bb file.
Bummer. What's the rationale behind this [restriction]?
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-02 23:22 require statement does not honor .bbappend Gary Thomas
2012-02-03 10:07 ` Richard Purdie
2012-02-03 13:27 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2012-02-03 15:01 ` Richard Purdie
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