From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dan.rpsys.net (dan.rpsys.net [93.97.175.187]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 277786CC84 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 06:56:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (dan.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) by dan.rpsys.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id r9A6u9Gq017829; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:56:09 +0100 X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at dan.rpsys.net Received: from dan.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dan.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 8ORohd30vmIW; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:56:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.3.10] (rpvlan0 [192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by dan.rpsys.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id r9A6u5Iv017825 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:56:06 +0100 Message-ID: <1381388161.29912.67.camel@ted> From: Richard Purdie To: Koen Kooi Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:56:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: "openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org oe-core layer" Subject: Re: Architectures with underscores in their names, how to handle that? X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 06:56:14 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 08:27 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on adding support for big-endian armv8 and the toolchain > people decided that it should be named 'aarch64_eb'. That currently > works in OE because there isn't a 'eb' override yet, but there might > be one in the future. > > So my question is, how can I safely handle a name like this? I suspect we'll just have to be careful never to add an "eb" override, in much the same way as a 64 override would also cause problems for x86_64. There is code in place to change the _ to - for package feed use. Longer term I'd like to see us find a better character for overrides than the current use of "_" but that would be a fair bit of work to achieve. I'd like to think that would performance as well as readablity of .bb files but I've yet to prove it. Cheers, Richard