On Wed, 2024-11-06 at 11:44 -0500, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 02:38:16PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Wed, 2024-11-06 at 06:26 -0800, Khem Raj wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 6:18 AM Richard Purdie via > > > lists.openembedded.org > > > <[email protected]> > > > 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? > > > > > > Seems ok to me. Who wins the race when there are more than one > > > file > > > mentioning duplicates > > > > Usual variable definition syntax so it would depend how the values > > were > > set (?= vs ? vs ??=). We don't want to change the syntax depending > > on > > the file! > > Is the order determined by layer priority or layer position in > BBLAYERS list?
BBPATH, the same as any other conf/class file. Cheers, Richard
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