On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Burton, Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Indeed; I agree with you now. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
