[poky] require statement does not honor .bbappend

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 16:22 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> This is really a bitbake problem, but I'll bring it up here.
> 
> I have a statement like this in one of my recipes:
>     require xyz.bb
> 
> If I also have within my layers a xyz.bbappend file, it gets
> processed when I build xyz, e.g.
>    % bitbake xyz
> but is ignored when I only 'require' that recipe.
> 
> Should it not be always processed?

No, as designed and implemented you can't bbappend to anything being
used as an include (or require), only the final .bb file.

Cheers,

Richard