On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Martin Jansa wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 09:25:57AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i suspect i know the answer to this, but in the recipe file > > usbinit.bb, we have: > > > > do_install() { > > install -d ${D}/etc > > install -d ${D}/etc/init.d > > install usb-gether ${D}/etc/init.d > > } > > > > i'm guessing that would more properly be coded: > > > > do_install() { > > install -d ${D}${sysconfdir} > > install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d > > install usb-gether ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d > > } > > > > the end result is functionally identical, of course, it's all just a > > matter of style. > > using sysconfdir is better as someone can define it to different value > then 'etc' and the later will still work (be consistent across image)
there are definitely a number of examples of hard-coded "/etc" in the recipes, but i'm not about to run around cleaning them -- i just wanted to make sure there was no compelling reason to do that hard-coding. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core