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Subject: Re: How to set environment variables inside a recipe?
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On Thursday 19 July 2012 18:16:45 Bodke, Kishore K wrote:
> The driver needs a bunch of environmental variables to be set ( specific to
> driver only ) to build.
> 
> Right now to move forward I am doing like below in my recipe to build it.
> 
> export  AAA = "${S}"
> export BBB = "${B}"
> export CCC = "{S}/build-system"
> export DDD = "{S}/env-files"
> 
> Is this right way to do?  Are there any other ways to set the environment
> variables inside a recipe?

This is valid; I would recommend setting them within the function though (e.g. 
do_configure) rather than at the recipe level, assuming that works for your 
case.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre