[OE-core] more pedantry: inconsistent presentation of how to introduce layers

2012-07-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i asked about this not that long ago but i'm still a bit puzzled -- what's the best practice for adding new layers in terms of how bblayers.conf and the various layer.conf files are defined? the default layer.conf for oe-core contains: BBPATH .= ":${LAYERDIR}" ... BBFILE_PRIORITY_normal = "5

Re: [OE-core] more pedantry: inconsistent presentation of how to introduce layers

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Tuesday 24 July 2012 05:04:25 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i asked about this not that long ago but i'm still a bit puzzled -- > what's the best practice for adding new layers in terms of how > bblayers.conf and the various layer.conf files are defined? > > the default layer.conf for oe-core c

Re: [OE-core] more pedantry: inconsistent presentation of how to introduce layers

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Tuesday 24 July 2012 10:15:32 Paul Eggleton wrote: > > but every single meta-openembedded sub-layer uses the *other* form: > > > > BBPATH .= ":${LAYERDIR}" > > Again, only as of quite recently Actually it seems that may not be true. This change was made in May 2011. Cheers, Paul -- Paul

Re: [OE-core] more pedantry: inconsistent presentation of how to introduce layers

2012-07-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Tuesday 24 July 2012 05:04:25 Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... > > with both the yocto and oe-core layer having priority 5. is there no > > chance of confusion here? > > As I mentioned before, the priority currently has no bearing on the > order

Re: [OE-core] more pedantry: inconsistent presentation of how to introduce layers

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Jansa
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Tuesday 24 July 2012 05:04:25 Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> i asked about this not that long ago but i'm still a bit puzzled -- >> what's the best practice for adding new layers in terms of how >> bblayers.conf and the various layer.conf f

Re: [OE-core] more pedantry: inconsistent presentation of how to introduce layers

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Tuesday 24 July 2012 11:29:26 Martin Jansa wrote: > > As I mentioned before, the priority currently has no bearing on the order > > of BBPATH - that is determined by the order in which the layer conf files > > are parsed and (as you highlight) whether they prepend or append to > > BBPATH. Rememb