Hi Robert, On Sunday 13 July 2014 10:19:08 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > followup to last post -- all of the methods for "overriding" task > definitions in the last post can be used without predeclaring that > you're about to do that; you just go ahead and do it in either a class > file or a recipe file. on the other hand, EXPORT_FUNCTIONS allows you > to retain the base definition of a task (or non-task function, as i > read it), then define a more general enhanced version. > > (side note: i don't see a single mention of "EXPORT_FUNCTIONS" in > any of the numerous yocto docs -- i think this feature needs some > explanation *somewhere*. :-)
Did you try the new BitBake manual? http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html#flexible-inheritance-for-class-functions Let me know if that doesn't answer your questions. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
