Re: [yocto] Environmental variable present in do_compile() {}, bitbake recipe -e, but is missing from do_configure() {} #bitbake

[Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>]

Hi Joseph,

On 7/17/25 6:24 PM, joseph.maniaci via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> So in experimenting, I learned that if I did a 'export ABC=3' in my environment followed by a 'bitbake whatever', the ABC environment variable would persist all the way to the do_compile(). However, what I found weird is that it is not present in the do_configure() step.
> 

You need to allow environment variables to be passed through to bitbake. 
This is done via BB_ENV_PASSTHROUGH/BB_ENV_PASSTHROUGH_ADDITIONS 
variable in your local.conf for example.

So you would have something like

BB_ENV_PASSTHROUGH_ADDITIONS="ABC"

I believe.

I'm surprised though that the variable is found by bitbake at all.

Cheers,
Quentin