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
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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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