On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > again, trying to catch up with new developments, and i want to > make sure i understand these variables. as i read it (and i could be > off-base), HOSTTOOLS represents a list of tools that *must* be > available one way or the other, and any tools listed there are > allowed to be symlinked from the tools available in PATH, is that > correct? > > OTOH, HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL represents whitelisted tools that will be > symlinked if they're there, but their absence is not fatal. > > i'm still not totally clear here ... and there is no mention of > these variables in the YP reference manual variables glossary.
oh, i think i asked this before as well ... how do these variables relate to ASSUME_PROVIDED? IIRC, ASSUME_PROVIDED is interpreted as "i have these utilities on my host, use them." 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.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core