Re: [PATCH 1/4 V4] bitbake: share source directory

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 17:05 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> This patch is derived from Richard, it is a quick proof of concept to
> show how source code could be shared between recipes which use ${B} to
> have a separate build directory compared to source directory ${S}.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
> ---
>  bitbake/lib/bb/build.py    |    4 ++--
>  bitbake/lib/bb/cache.py    |    3 +++
>  bitbake/lib/bb/runqueue.py |   10 ++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Since this is a bitbake patch it should really have gone to the
bitbake-devel list. Its been posted around enough times for review
though so I've merged it into bitbake. I did massively reword the commit
message though to reflect what the changes mean from a bitbake
perspective.

Cheers,

Richard