Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] bitbake.conf: Drop oldincludedir

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2023-11-16 at 13:25 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 8:53 AM Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Autoconf defines this as:
> > 
> > "The directory for installing C header files for non-GCC compilers."
> > 
> > Whilst this is something autoconf does allow changing, I find it hard
> > to believe it has much use in the wild now and that headers don't get
> > split like this in reality, it would probably only be useful on really
> > old unixes.. The values are the same in our configuration anyway.
> > 
> > Drop the value and just use includedir everywhere.
> 
> Maybe alias it to includedir instead. Since some makefiles may assume
> a default value in its absence
> which might change the install behavior. It does not matter much on
> native builds but for cross builds it might.

I did for autoconf itself but I'm struggling to believe there are
generic makefiles out there using this.

We really need to cut down on the amount of environment exports we have
so lets see if this does actually break anything...

Cheers,

Richard