On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 16:03 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 15:16 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > I've been thinking through the different use cases and briefly talked > > with Koen offlist about this. I think the revised order makes sense with > > what users would expect and am happy to remove local and fail-fast as > > overrides since we don't have people using them (local is pretty > > weak/useless and fail-fast has only ever been used by gcc recipes > > afaik). > > I've certainly found local useful in the past, though admittedly that > might have been in the days when it was the highest rather than lowest > priority OVERRIDE. You might be right that it isn't a great deal of use > as it stands. > > I agree that fail-fast should probably go away, but there is an existing > reference to it in gcc-cross_csl-arm-2008q1.bb and I think the patch > that removes the OVERRIDE should probably address that usage at the same > time. > > What's "forcevariable" for? I don't think we ever had that in oe, and > there don't seem to be any obvious users of it in oe-core either.
It was added to poky with the intent of doing what "_local" would have done before it was broken. I think its a little safer than using "local" as the override keyword, I'm open to opinion on whether it should be kept but it probably has uses. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
