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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/25] bitbake.conf: support for merged usr with DISTRO_FEATURE usrmerge
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On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 10:26 +0200, Amarnath Valluri wrote:
> From: Joshua Lock <joshua.g.lock@intel.com>
> 
> Modify bindir, libdir and sbindir to be exec_prefix/$d, rather than
> base_prefix/$d, when the usrmerge DISTRO_FEATURE is enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock <joshua.g.lock@intel.com>
> ---
>  meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

I was asked to clarify the status of this series. We've taken many of
the changes but the core changes to bitbake.conf haven't been merged.

Ross/I discussed it and we both feel that the bitbake.conf make the
file pretty unreadable. We'd therefore like to see this implemented as
a .inc file which gets included when the relevant DISTRO_FEATURE is set
(or could just be included by the appropriate distro configs). This
.inc file would then simply override the paths. I believe this would be
a lot more readable than the current approach which is a key concern in
the core config.

The merge of the rest of this feature is therefore pending on the
development of such a patch, or a discussion convincing Ross/I why we
shouldn't take that approach for some reason.

Cheers,

Richard