From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 4023FE0078E; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:45:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no * trust * [208.80.204.85 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from smtp485.redcondor.net (smtp485.redcondor.net [208.80.204.85]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1B6AE004F2 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by smtp485.redcondor.net ({3be039ea-4351-44b0-a8af-642c38b25916}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTPS id 20140811164531335 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:45:31 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from [99.240.204.5] (port=55112 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XGsis-00010l-H6; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:45:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:45:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: Christopher Larson In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - yoctoproject.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-MAG-OUTBOUND: ccj.redcondor.net@64.235.106.9/32 Cc: Yocto discussion list Subject: Re: anyone know of a single OE/yocto recipe that uses BBVERSIONS? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:45:45 -0000 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="8323328-37329135-1407775525=:3897" --8323328-37329135-1407775525=:3897 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, Christopher Larson wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Robert P. J. Day 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? > > > 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== --8323328-37329135-1407775525=:3897--