Re: [PATCH 17/22] bitbake.conf: Add default tune-${DEFAULTTUNE} override

[Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>]

On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 00:36 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
> 
> We need to add the tune-* override in order for more complicated tune
> features to function properly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/conf/bitbake.conf |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> index 9c80f11..11dfb6d 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> @@ -637,9 +637,10 @@ AUTO_LIBNAME_PKGS = "${PACKAGES}"
>  #
>  # This works for  functions as well, they are really just environment variables.
>  # Default OVERRIDES to make compilation fail fast in case of build system misconfiguration.
> -OVERRIDES = "${TARGET_OS}:${TARGET_ARCH}:build-${BUILD_OS}:pn-${PN}:${MACHINEOVERRIDES}:${DISTROOVERRIDES}:forcevariable"
> +OVERRIDES = "${TARGET_OS}:${TARGET_ARCH}:build-${BUILD_OS}:pn-${PN}:${MACHINEOVERRIDES}:${TUNEOVERRIDES}:${DISTROOVERRIDES}:forcevariable"
>  DISTROOVERRIDES ?= "${DISTRO}"
>  MACHINEOVERRIDES ?= "${MACHINE}"
> +TUNEOVERRIDES ?= "tune-${DEFAULTTUNE}"

What exactly are the "more complicated tune features" that require this?
It's not obvious to me that this is a good idea.

p.