On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Christopher Larson wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > pedantic observation -- i notice in base.bbclass: > > > > > > do_unpack[dirs] = "${WORKDIR}" > > > > > > and over in patch.bbclass: > > > > > > addtask patch after do_unpack > > > do_patch[dirs] = "${WORKDIR}" > > > > > > so given that patching has been added as a task after unpacking, > > > wouldn't ${WORKDIR} already be guaranteed to exist? doesn't hurt, of > > > course, and no, i have no intention of trying to clean any of that up > > > :-), i just wanted to clarify the actual mechanics. > > > > > > 'dirs' isn't just a list of dirs to create, it also sets the current > > working directory for the task. The last directory listed is where > > the path is set. > > is that documented anywhere? the "variable flags" section of the > bitbake user manual says nothing about that last obviously significant > property. Good question, I have no idea :) Clearly it should be somewhere. -- Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
