The comment appears to have been accidentally left behind when the fail-fast over-ride was removed by:
http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=83ce96f44516c8a4a44c8c0140949256f8422014 Also update comments to refer to bitbake variables as just variables, rather than environment variables. Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy <[email protected]> --- meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 13 +++++-------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf index a21b728..b85be1e 100644 --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf @@ -722,19 +722,16 @@ export PKG_CONFIG_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_PATH = "${includedir}" # is a bad idea. Setting a dummy value is better than a ton of anonymous python. DISTRO ??= "nodistro" DISTRO_NAME ??= "OpenEmbedded" + # Overrides are processed left to right, so the ones that are named later take precedence. -# You generally want them to go from least to most specific. -# -# This means that an envionment variable named '<foo>_arm' overrides an -# environment variable '<foo>' (when ${TARGET_ARCH} is arm). -# An environment variable '<foo>_qemuarm' overrides '<foo>' and overrides -# '<foo>_arm' when ${MACHINE} is 'qemuarm'. +# You generally want them to go from least to most specific. This means that: +# A variable '<foo>_arm' overrides a variable '<foo>' when ${TARGET_ARCH} is arm. +# A variable '<foo>_qemuarm' overrides '<foo>' and overrides '<foo>_arm' when ${MACHINE} is 'qemuarm'. # If you use combination ie '<foo>_qemuarm_arm', then '<foo>_qemuarm_arm' will override # '<foo>_qemuarm' and then '<foo>' will be overriden with that value from '<foo>_qemuarm'. # And finally '<foo>_forcevariable' overrides any standard variable, with the highest priority. +# This works for functions as well, they are really just variables. # -# This works for functions as well, they are really just environment variables. -# Default OVERRIDES to make compilation fail fast in case of build system misconfiguration. OVERRIDES = "${TARGET_OS}:${TRANSLATED_TARGET_ARCH}:build-${BUILD_OS}:pn-${PN}:${MACHINEOVERRIDES}:${DISTROOVERRIDES}:${CLASSOVERRIDE}:forcevariable" CLASSOVERRIDE ?= "class-target" DISTROOVERRIDES ?= "${@d.getVar('DISTRO') or ''}" -- 1.9.1 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
