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 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
