On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 6:18 AM Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org <richard.purdie=linuxfoundation....@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> I think we've had this idea around on occasions before but I'm going to > write it down as an official proposal. In the interests of small > contained but useful tweaks, I'd like to suggest we add an > "include_all" directive. > > Example usage would be: > > include_all conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc > > which would iterate BBPATH and include (in order) each maintainers.inc > file it finds. > > This would be used for things like the maintainers inc files so that > other layers could add values to some central list. The clang inc files > were another possible use case or the static libs or other inc files we > have in core. > > It would all a few more files bitbake would have to check for the > presence of to check cache validation but that is already a complex > problem and we have ways to handle this. > > I did wonder about "require_all" but I doubt we need the difference in > semantics for this form of operation and include is good enough. > > Thoughts? Seems ok to me. Who wins the race when there are more than one file mentioning duplicates > > Cheers, > > Richard > > > >
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