From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
To: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: when does ${XX} in variable names get expanded?
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:30:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E3ABB14.1040203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C10D3FB0CD45994C8A51FEC1227CE22F2CE2E480D0@shsmsx502.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On 08/04/2011 02:19 AM, Lu, Lianhao wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> For the following variable definition in bitbake,
>
> VVV = "llu"
> A_${VVV} = "VVV"
> A_llu = "llu"
>
> B = "${@bb.data.getVar('A_llu', d, True)}"
> C := "${@bb.data.getVar('A_llu', d, True)}"
>
> Why B is "VVV" and C is "llu" in final? I'm wondering when is the ${VVV} in the variable name of A_${VVV} expanded.
>
:= demands immediate expansion so any variables thats in the expression
will be evaluated right there
where as = will be evaluated on reference and the variables it uses will
be read/evaluated at that time.
> Best Regards,
> -Lianhao Lu
>
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2011-08-04 9:19 when does ${XX} in variable names get expanded? Lu, Lianhao
2011-08-04 9:48 ` Richard Purdie
2011-08-04 15:30 ` Khem Raj [this message]
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