Hi, On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 02:18:00PM +0000, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org wrote: > I think we've had this idea around on occasions before but I'm going to > write it down as an official proposal. In the interests of small > contained but useful tweaks, I'd like to suggest we add an > "include_all" directive. > > Example usage would be: > > include_all conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc > > which would iterate BBPATH and include (in order) each maintainers.inc > file it finds. > > This would be used for things like the maintainers inc files so that > other layers could add values to some central list. The clang inc files > were another possible use case or the static libs or other inc files we > have in core. > > It would all a few more files bitbake would have to check for the > presence of to check cache validation but that is already a complex > problem and we have ways to handle this. > > I did wonder about "require_all" but I doubt we need the difference in > semantics for this form of operation and include is good enough. > > Thoughts?
Nice idea. Could this be used to also detect and enable available machine and distro features? A build which automatically enables all distro features from the set of enabled layers could be useful for general purpose use builds. Cheers, -Mikko
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