Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-19 Thread William M.A. Traynor
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Paul Eggleton paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com wrote: On Wednesday 17 April 2013 11:39:09 Robert P. J. Day wrote: p.s. i think one of the manuals should mention chris larson's bitbake-env utility, which i use for debugging and explanations all the time. I'd

Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-18 Thread Gary Thomas
On 2013-04-17 16:26, Trevor Woerner wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Gary Thomas g...@mlbassoc.com wrote: I also think it would be good to point out the use of := in the FILESEXTRAPATHS assignment and why it's important. Knowing that the := operator will put your directories first is

Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Gary Thomas wrote: On 2013-04-17 16:26, Trevor Woerner wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Gary Thomas g...@mlbassoc.com wrote: I also think it would be good to point out the use of := in the FILESEXTRAPATHS assignment and why it's important. Knowing that

Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-18 Thread Trevor Woerner
Sorry if I'm asking a really stupid question, but if so, it means I'm way off the mark :-) On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Gary Thomas g...@mlbassoc.com wrote: My point, which was totally unclear to me when using this line, was that with ':=' ${THISDIR} evaluates to the directory that contains

[yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a while back, i dug into how FILESEXTRAPATHS worked with respect to .bbappend files and i wrote it up, just updated it a bit here: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/FILESEXTRAPATHS_and_bbappend_files do i have it about right? it seemed that the underlying details weren't really

Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-17 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Wednesday 17 April 2013 10:24:42 Robert P. J. Day wrote: a while back, i dug into how FILESEXTRAPATHS worked with respect to .bbappend files and i wrote it up, just updated it a bit here: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/FILESEXTRAPATHS_and_bbappend_files do i have it about

Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Wednesday 17 April 2013 10:24:42 Robert P. J. Day wrote: a while back, i dug into how FILESEXTRAPATHS worked with respect to .bbappend files and i wrote it up, just updated it a bit here:

Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-17 Thread Gary Thomas
On 2013-04-17 09:03, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Wednesday 17 April 2013 10:24:42 Robert P. J. Day wrote: a while back, i dug into how FILESEXTRAPATHS worked with respect to .bbappend files and i wrote it up, just updated it a bit here:

Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-17 Thread Rifenbark, Scott M
Just a note here regarding which Yocto Project manuals to look at for the most current information. Use the 1.4 manuals. So for the FILESEXTRAPATHS variable description you should look at http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.4/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-FILESEXTRAPATHS entry. The

Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Gary Thomas wrote: On 2013-04-17 09:03, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Wednesday 17 April 2013 10:24:42 Robert P. J. Day wrote: a while back, i dug into how FILESEXTRAPATHS worked with respect to .bbappend files and i wrote it up, just updated it a bit here:

Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote: Just a note here regarding which Yocto Project manuals to look at for the most current information. Use the 1.4 manuals. So for the FILESEXTRAPATHS variable description you should look at

Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-17 Thread Gary Thomas
On 2013-04-17 09:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Gary Thomas wrote: On 2013-04-17 09:03, Paul Eggleton wrote: On Wednesday 17 April 2013 10:24:42 Robert P. J. Day wrote: a while back, i dug into how FILESEXTRAPATHS worked with respect to .bbappend files and i wrote it

Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-17 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Wednesday 17 April 2013 11:39:09 Robert P. J. Day wrote: p.s. i think one of the manuals should mention chris larson's bitbake-env utility, which i use for debugging and explanations all the time. I'd rather wait until we actually integrate that into BitBake (i.e. provide it with the

Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-17 Thread Trevor Woerner
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Gary Thomas g...@mlbassoc.com wrote: I also think it would be good to point out the use of := in the FILESEXTRAPATHS assignment and why it's important. Knowing that the := operator will put your directories first is only useful if you also know that the

Re: [yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

2013-04-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Trevor Woerner wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Gary Thomas g...@mlbassoc.com wrote: I also think it would be good to point out the use of := in the FILESEXTRAPATHS assignment and why it's important. Knowing that the := operator will put your directories first