On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-02-11 at 05:32 -0500, rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:
> > second, i think we all agree that it is rarely necessary to use
> > "PROVIDES +=", although i did run across one case in
> > recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc:
> >
> > PROVIDES = "virtua
On Tue, 2020-02-11 at 05:32 -0500, rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:
> second, i think we all agree that it is rarely necessary to use
> "PROVIDES +=", although i did run across one case in
> recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc:
>
> PROVIDES = "virtual/libc"
> PROVIDES += "virtual/libintl virtual/libico
On Sat, 8 Feb 2020, Jonatan Palsson wrote:
> Hello Robert & Leon,
>
> > So I think it might be harmful to replace it with "=", as it would no
> > longer provide libpcre.
>
> I had a look at the variable expansions bitbake -e. Here are two
> examples. The vim recipe uses "PROVIDES = xxd" (which wou
On Sat, 8 Feb 2020, Jonatan Palsson wrote:
snip ...
> See the bottom example here:
> https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/3.1/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html#variable-interaction-worked-examples
ironically, i am shortly going to ask a convoluted question about
this very thing --
On Sat, 8 Feb 2020, Jonatan Palsson wrote:
> Hello Robert & Leon,
>
> > So I think it might be harmful to replace it with "=", as it would no
> > longer provide libpcre.
>
> I had a look at the variable expansions bitbake -e. Here are two
> examples. The vim recipe uses "PROVIDES = xxd" (which wou
Hello Robert & Leon,
> So I think it might be harmful to replace it with "=", as it would no
> longer provide libpcre.
I had a look at the variable expansions bitbake -e. Here are two
examples. The vim recipe uses "PROVIDES = xxd" (which would cause
weird effects if = simply overwrote any existin
On Sat, 8 Feb 2020, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> > i am *assuming* that, in the absence of a compelling reason, the use
> > of "+=" instead of "=" in this context is harmless, but unnecessary,
> > correct?
> >
> My understanding is that:
>
> > meta/recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre_
Hello Robert,
> i am *assuming* that, in the absence of a compelling reason, the use
> of "+=" instead of "=" in this context is harmless, but unnecessary,
> correct?
>
My understanding is that:
> meta/recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre_8.43.bb:PROVIDES += "pcre"
means "I provide both "libpcre" a
