[poky] BusyBox features not working

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 12 July 2011 13:48:30 Gary Thomas wrote:
> Weird.  I just ran through this, first with the default value for
> DISTRO_FEATURES, then with the same value but 'ipv4' placed at the front
> of that list.  If 'ipv4' is somewhere in the middle, busybox is not
> configured correctly.  If it's at the front, it works properly.

Hmm, a quick test shows that you're right, it doesn't seem to be working as 
expected. Not sure what's going on yet but I will investigate further.

> Note: I printed the value of DISTRO_FEATURES by modifying base.bbclass.  Is
> there an easier way to see the value of such variables being used by the
> recipes?  I gave the bitbake manual a look, but didn't find any hints...

The option you want is -e, for example:

bitbake -e busybox | grep DISTRO_FEATURES

or, to be more strict:

bitbake -e busybox | grep ^DISTRO_FEATURES

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre