From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com (astoria.ccjclearline.com [64.235.106.9]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4867260017 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [12.20.171.104] (port=34680 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YB1Is-0002sE-Rz; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 08:14:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 05:14:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: "Burton, Ross" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11) 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: OE Core mailing list Subject: Re: in sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb, is 'S = "${WORKDIR}/sysfsutils-${PV}"' redundant? X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:14:49 -0000 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="8323328-1636299937-1421154880=:23356" --8323328-1636299937-1421154880=:23356 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Tue, 13 Jan 2015, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 13 January 2015 at 12:57, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > setting S that way in the recipe obviously doesn't do any > harm, but is it accurate to say that, at least in this case, it's > unnecessary? > > > Correct.  A patch from the student is welcome. :) actually, there appears to be quite a lot of that scattered throughout oe-core, so i'm not sure it's worth trying to clean it up piecemeal as opposed to just doing it in one large patch. as i said, i realize it doesn't hurt, but i'm a big fan of not having lines where lines are unnecessary. i'll defer to the list ... is it worth tracking down all the recipes that are doing that and just deleting that redundant line from them? or is that just unnecessary code churn? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== --8323328-1636299937-1421154880=:23356--