[poky] require statement does not honor .bbappend

[Gary Thomas]

On 2012-02-03 03:07, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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.

Bummer.  What's the rationale behind this [restriction]?

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