why would a BBFILES variable refer to a "classes" directory?

why would a BBFILES variable refer to a "classes" directory?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  possibly a stupid question, but i'm looking at a publicly available
OE layer and, in layer.conf, there is a setting for BBFILES that pulls
in a number of subdirectories and ends with:

        ... snip ...
        ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend \
	${LAYERDIR}/classes/*.bbclass"

  i am unfamiliar with BBFILES used to include references to a classes
directory, and that layer.conf file already includes the earlier line:

  BBPATH := "${LAYERDIR}:${BBPATH}"

  can someone explain what BBFILES has to do with defining additional
classes in a layer? thanks muchly.

rday

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Re: why would a BBFILES variable refer to a "classes" directory?

[Christopher Larson]

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On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
wrote:

>   possibly a stupid question, but i'm looking at a publicly available
> OE layer and, in layer.conf, there is a setting for BBFILES that pulls
> in a number of subdirectories and ends with:
>
>         ... snip ...
>         ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend \
>         ${LAYERDIR}/classes/*.bbclass"
>
>   i am unfamiliar with BBFILES used to include references to a classes
> directory, and that layer.conf file already includes the earlier line:
>
>   BBPATH := "${LAYERDIR}:${BBPATH}"
>
>   can someone explain what BBFILES has to do with defining additional
> classes in a layer? thanks muchly.
>

Nothing. It's not accomplishing anything.
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Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics

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