From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SoMw8-0006mQ-2a for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:00:12 +0200 Received: from cpec03f0ed08c7f-cm001ac318e826.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([99.241.91.63]:48198 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SoMlL-0008R9-9u; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:49:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 18:48:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@oneiric To: Paul Eggleton In-Reply-To: <2863878.hMO01FTXta@helios> Message-ID: References: <2863878.hMO01FTXta@helios> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: more pedantry -- looking to clarify layers definition, BBPATH, BBFILES, etc. X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:00:12 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > The BBPATH variable is completely independent of this, and is the > path that is used to find conf and bbclass files; however, the order > in which the appends / prepends will be applied is of course the > order in which they are parsed, which is the order in which they > appear in bblayers.conf. Most layers should be appending to BBPATH > rather than prepending but there may be exceptions. and that was my basic issue -- that some layers append while others prepend might cause unexpected behaviour, but i've made my point so i'll shut up now. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================