On Wed, 16 Jul 2014, Christopher Larson wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>
> wrote:
> just ran across this in the meta-yocto layer but it's a general OE
> question -- the psplash_git.bbappend file contains the following
> distro-conditional line:
>
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend_poky := "${THISDIR}/files:"
>
> and the accompanying files/ directory has, unsurprisingly, a
> poky-specific splash image file, "psplash-poky-img.h".
>
> but based on how FILESEXTRAPATHS is processed by incorporating all
> of the FILESOVERRIDES variations (one of which is the distro name),
> would it not have been entirely equivalent to have used simply
>
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
>
> and placed that splash file in the accompanying directory files/poky/?
> would these two approaches do the same thing? is there a preferred
> way? that's the only example of that i've seen in all the layers i've
> played with.
>
>
> Both would do the same thing, I'm personally of the opinion that the
> latter would be more consistent with how such things are normally
> done.
i was ready to bet internal organs that they had the same effect,
but i've perused the OE code base enough that i trip over oddities and
i just really want to make sure i know what i'm looking at.
rday
p.s. if someone wants to submit a poky patch that changes that, feel
free. otherwise, i'll just use it in class as a "check out what
someone did *here*!" example. :-)
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