Hi Robert, On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 09:39:14AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > bitbake manual, chapter 3, examples of conditional syntax: > > https://docs.yoctoproject.org/bitbake/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.html#examples > > correctly distinguishes between A_foo_append and A_append_foo, but how > often would one use that first form, anyway? > > most uses of conditional appending are either just straight > appending: > > VAR_append = "fubar" > > or used with an override thusly: > > VAR_append_x86 = "snafu" > > is there an actual practical usage of, say: > > VAR_x86_append = "huh" > > i can't remember the last time i saw something of that form and, > while it might be worth explaining, it seems that the reader might be > warned that that form is almost certainly *not* what they want. >
Yes, in 99% of the cases, you want VAR_append_foo and not VAR_foo_append. VAR_foo_append makes sense when you want to append to VAR_foo which is a way to override completely VAR for builds matching the foo override. This happens in kernel-yocto recipes where branches and defconfigs are different per machine for example. The sneaky thing about VAR_foo_append is that it creates VAR_foo even if it didn't exist beforehand, meaning you though you *appended* something to VAR while you actually replaced VAR entirely with what VAR_foo_append is set too. Quentin
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