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On 06-12-08 18:50, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 04:32:52PM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> On 06-12-08 15:39, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As people have probably noticed I just synced up a number of useful
>>> changes from Poky into bitbake and brought things pretty much back into
>>> sync.
>>>
>>> The current plan is to let this stabilise for 1 week and the providing
>>> no major bugs were introduced, make a new release (finally!).
>> Not a bug, but something for people to note:
>>
>> http://projects.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2008-October/006289.html
>
>
> As I asked at the time, what's this doing?  Do all distros need to do
> this?  What's Angstrom doing on the metadata side to make use of this?
> Thanks!

The angstrom buildscripts 
(http://cgit.openembedded.net/cgit.cgi?url=openembedded/tree/contrib/angstrom) 
pass MACHINE and ANGSTROM_MODE via the shell enviroment to avoid 
spurious reparsing. Since bitbake clean the environment the vars don't 
get into bitbake.

regards,

Koen