On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2013-04-17 16:26, Trevor Woerner wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Gary Thomas <g...@mlbassoc.com> wrote: > > > I also think it would be good to point out the use of := in the > > > FILESEXTRAPATHS > > > assignment and why it's important. > > > > Knowing that the := operator will put your directories first is only > > useful if you also know that the underlying mechanism will take the > > first such files from the given directories it encounters :-) What's > > to say bitbake doesn't look at all the directories/files and take the > > last ones? > > This has more to do with how the path is constructed (using _prepend). > > My point, which was totally unclear to me when using this line, was > that with ':=' ${THISDIR} evaluates to the directory that contains > the .bbappend file (what you want/need) whereas with '=' it evaluates > to the directory containing the main .bb file. Incredibly confusing > if you miss it...
ah, quite so, must make a note of that. i wonder how many other places that point should be made forcefully. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto