Re: [PATCH 0/3] Remove unhelpful default value of EXTRA_OEMAKE

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 14:49 +0000, Mike Crowe wrote:
> bitbake.conf currently contains:
> 
> EXTRA_OEMAKE = "-e MAKEFLAGS="
> 
> Back in November[1] I submitted a patch that allowed this default
> value to be overridden without affecting anything else that was
> appended to it. I received feedback that the default value was no
> longer useful and that it would be good to get rid of it.
> 
> So, this patch series fixes the two recipes that still appear to be
> relying on the previous default and then makes the default
> EXTRA_OEMAKE = "". After these changes core-image-sato builds
> successfully for me (although I have not run it.)
> 
> Mike.
> 
> [1] http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-No
> vember/112393.html

This is a pretty major change and we likely need a bit more of an idea
of impact.

Which architectures did you test? Often, x86 is a bad choice here and
we'd need something cross (arm/mips/ppc) to ensure it really is doing
the right things. We also need to assess a bit more than just sato. We
can run this up on the autobuilder and see what happens.

A post to the architecture list is probably needed so everyone knows
this is happening (or at least being considered).

I do worry how much of meta-oe may be affected by this. 

Martin: Any opinion on this?

Cheers,

Richard