[poky] A question about overrides

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 05:48 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I have my own distribution layer, built on the poky distribution.
> In other words, my layer defines a few basic setups, then inherits
> poky to do the rest.
> 
> For the most part, I've been successful with this.  The problem at
> hand is that for my distribution, I need to support a couple of
> different architectures and at the moment, one of them needs to
> stay in the stone age tools-wise.  In my distro.conf, I have
> lines like these to select those tools for just that architecture:
>    GCCVERSION_armv7a ?= "4.3.3"
> This works for everything (I've tried), except this:
>    POKYLIBC_armv7a ?= "glibc"
> 
> * Is there some magic I'm missing with regard to the 'POKYLIBC' symbol?
> * Perhaps there's some other way?
> 
> For now, I'm overriding this in local.conf, but that requires
> hand tuning that I'd like to avoid.

Can you be more specific about what your distro.conf file says? I'm
guessing you're requiring poky.conf in there? Are you setting the value
after the require and does it work if you do it beforehand?

I ask as that variable is used in a require in poky.conf, effectively
causing an immediate expansion of the variable so it needs to be set
before poky.conf, not afterwards.

Cheers,

Richard