A couple of things: 1) If you're not already, use bitbake -e <recipename> and not just bitbake -e
2) I'd also recommend not piping through grep - pipe through "less" instead and search for the variable with / - this means you can see the history of how the variable's value got set. Cheers, Paul On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 04:13:09 Gujulan Elango, Hari Prasath wrote: > Hi Raj > > Thanks for your reply. I tried bitbake-layers show-appends. I could see my > bbappend file. But when I tried to grep the environment variable I am > trying to set using bitbake -e, I am not able to see any output. Is there > any way to confirm that the environment variable is set to the value I am > trying to set ? > > Regards, > Hari Prasath > > From: Khem Raj [mailto:raj.k...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 11:49 PM > To: Gujulan Elango, Hari Prasath (H.) > Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org > Subject: Re: [yocto] Problem with exporting variable in bbappend file > > > On Aug 30, 2016, at 5:30 AM, Gujulan Elango, Hari Prasath (H.) > <hguju...@visteon.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > We are working on a platform based on Renesas processor. The BSP provided by > them has arm-trusted-firmware. Now in order to enable all the 8 cores, they > have suggested to add a environment variable in the > arm-trusted-firmware_git.bb file in their BSP layer as below. > > export PSCI_DISABLE_BIGLITTLE_IN_CA57BOOT="0" > > We would prefer to make this change in our custom layer by creating a > .bbappend file. We added the change in bbappend file, recompiled it and > tested, but couldn't get the expected results. When I do the same change in > the .bb file itself in their BSP layer, I am able to see the expected > result. > > Is it okay to just add the export as mentioned above in the .bbappend file ? > Am I missing something else ? > > ensure that your bbappend is actually applying to the final parsed recipe. > You can use bitbake-layers show-appends to ensure that or simply bitbake -e > and grep for this change > > > > Thanks & Regards, > Hari Prasath > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto