Re: anyone know of a single OE/yocto recipe that uses BBVERSIONS?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

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On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, Christopher Larson wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>         collecting examples of recipe design and variants, and bitbake user
>       manual refers to BBVERSIONS variable to allow a recipe file to build
>       multiple versions from one file, but in the dozen or so layers i have
>       checked out, i've seen not a single example of usage of that variable.
>
>         are there any?
>
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> Nope, as far as I know, it's not being used at all at the moment.
> The idea was we could use it to avoid having multiple recipes with
> different versions and .inc includes all over the place, but then
> policy changed to tend to prefer having just a single recipe version
> around, so it's of less use. If you'd like to see an example of a
> prototyped recipe using it, which I created while implementing
> BBVERSIONS, see https://gist.github.com/kergoth/338382. This was an
> attempt, at the time (2010) to have a single m4 recipe that was
> capable of building every m4 version that existed. It was mostly to
> see if it could be done :)

  fair enough ... given that it doesn't seem to have a lot of
utilitarian value, i won't bother mentioning it in my notes. or, at
most, very briefly.

rday

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