Re: [PATCH] waf.bbclass: explicitly pass libdir

[Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>]

On 2017-12-11 18:15, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com> wrote:
>> On 11 December 2017 at 15:37, Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Vanilla waf only supports --prefix, --libdir, and --bindir. Anything else
>>> is a result of loading the gnu_dirs tool, which not all projects are
>>> required to do.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry, hit send too soo: waf (at least version 2.0) also errors out on
>>> unknown options. I think the three I listed are the only ones we can do
>>> generically. There might be some way to easily adding the rest if you know
>>> waf is loading gnu_dirs
>>
>>
>> One option would be for waf.bbclass to check if WAF_USES_GNU_DIRS is set
>> (defaulting to 0) and pass the full set of path options automatically.
> 
> Possible. But passing the standard ones solve 99% of the issues.
> 

I am with Otavio here. Also, adding the standard ones and adding the
additional GNU_DIRS would best be done in two independent patches
anyway. For now I'd rather prefer to only add the standard ones.

--
Stefan