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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: one more curiosity about oe-buildenv-internal: what's with BBEXTRA?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:17:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1332371826.9740.222.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1203211859490.15915@oneiric>

On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 19:02 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> apparently, given the following in oe-buildenv-internal:
> 
> BITBAKEDIR="$OEROOT/bitbake$BBEXTRA/"
> 
> you can use BBEXTRA to use a different bitbake directory than the
> default.  is this a debugging aid?  are normal users meant to know
> about this?  i don't see any mention of it anywhere.  in fact, from
> the top level of oe-core:
> 
> $ grep -r BBEXTRA *
> scripts/oe-buildenv-internal:BITBAKEDIR="$OEROOT/bitbake$BBEXTRA/"
> $

I was responsible for this one a long time ago and it was simply a
development aid. I was probably its main user although I haven't used it
in a while. We don't have multiple versions of bitbake being used
heavily anymore, thankfully.

Cheers,

Richard




  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-21 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-21 23:02 one more curiosity about oe-buildenv-internal: what's with BBEXTRA? Robert P. J. Day
2012-03-21 23:17 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2012-03-21 23:20   ` Robert P. J. Day

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