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_8.43.bb:PROVIDES += "pcre"
>
> means "I provide both "libpcre" as well as "pcre". I am assuming
> that PROVIDES = "${PN}" is already set by a core BitBake rule
> somewhere. (Didn't check...)
>
> So I think it might be harmful to replace it with "=", as it would
> no longer provide libpcre.
if that's true, then i've misunderstood it all this time. i guess i
could always RTFS.
rday
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