[poky] How to append inc file

[Gary Thomas]

On 04/02/2011 07:36 AM, Yu Ke wrote:
> on 2011-4-2 20:57, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 04/02/2011 06:52 AM, Yu Ke wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> bbappend file can be used to append content to bb file, and it is very
>>> useful in BSP meta data. Today I just find the *.inc file is also need
>>> to be appended, so I wonder if there
>>> is similar incappend file that can append content to inc file?
>>>
>>> I meet this requirement when trying to fix bug 896
>>> (http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=896). To make
>>> poky-image-clutter build pass in n450, the clutter.inc need to be
>>> appended to change the COMPATIBLE_MACHINE.
>>
>> Why can't you just put the change in the .bbappend file (since it's
>> already recipe/target specific)?
>>
>
> currently there is clutter 1.4 and clutter 1.6 which both use the clutter.inc. and yes, It is also fine to use duplicate bbappend to append clutter 1.4 and clutter 1.6
> respectively. But if clutter.inc can be appended, then it will reduce the duplicate code. Also inc file append has another benefit, when clutter 1.8 is out in the future, the BSP
> append code don't need any change.

Agreed, but .inc files are not handled the same way as .bb (at all) by
the parser code, so I think it would be a pretty significant change
to support such.

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