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From: Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: ALLOW_EMPTY versus ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}? a couple clarifications
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:18:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF6F3CF.6030707@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1207060832110.13212@oneiric>

W dniu 06.07.2012 15:10, Robert P. J. Day pisze:
> 
>   just trying to clarify the gory details of the ALLOW_EMPTY setting.
> first, across several .bb files, there is a mixture of these two:
> 
> ALLOW_EMPTY = "1"
> ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
> 
>   what's the difference?  what does the first one represent if you're
> not specific?  does that cover *all* generated packages?

Yes, first means "all packages may be empty"

>   next, i assume there's no real value to hardcoding the package name,
> as in:
> 
> ./meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.0.25.bb:ALLOW_EMPTY_alsa-utils = "1"
> 
> (i assume the above could have just used the standard "_${PN}",
> right?)

${PN} should be in this case.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-06 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-06 13:10 ALLOW_EMPTY versus ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}? a couple clarifications Robert P. J. Day
2012-07-06 14:18 ` Marcin Juszkiewicz [this message]
2012-07-06 16:51   ` Robert P. J. Day
2013-03-03 15:56 ` Richard Purdie
2013-03-03 16:15   ` Martin Jansa

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