Automatic -dbg FILES generation

Automatic -dbg FILES generation

[Richard Purdie]

I don't think I'm alone in being a bit frustrated with the effort
needed to get FILES_${PN}-dbg correct. I've just posted a patch to oe
-core which automates this and means we can drop 99% of the cases where
we set this variable.

I'm giving a heads up here since this is an architectural change to the
way the system works and wanted people to be aware of it. I'm hoping it
will be welcomed and not too controversial.

Setting FILES_${PN}-dbg doesn't harm anything, it just becomes
unnecessary in most cases.

Cheers,

Richard

Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Automatic -dbg FILES generation

[Christopher Larson]

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On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> I don't think I'm alone in being a bit frustrated with the effort
> needed to get FILES_${PN}-dbg correct. I've just posted a patch to oe
> -core which automates this and means we can drop 99% of the cases where
> we set this variable.
>
> I'm giving a heads up here since this is an architectural change to the
> way the system works and wanted people to be aware of it. I'm hoping it
> will be welcomed and not too controversial.
>
> Setting FILES_${PN}-dbg doesn't harm anything, it just becomes
> unnecessary in most cases.
>

I'll just say hell yes :) Been hoping one of the implementations of this
would get merged, glad to see it happening.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics

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