On 27 February 2014 20:06, Otavio Salvador <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Burton, Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 27 February 2014 18:01, Richard Purdie
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> +inherit autotools
>>> +B = "${S}"
>>
>> Why is this preferable to directly setting B in the recipe, which
>> seems more obvious to me.
>
> I see one benefit for it being easier to grep for; so we know this is
> one recipe which ought to be fixed and that rely on autotools.

I'm apprehensive of adding a class whose sole purpose is to set a
variable that can be set in the recipe itself, and will be another
class to explain/document for the future.  Grepping for an assignment
to B is almost as simple too.

Ross
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