[poky] Not able to set env var from anon function

[Nithyakala Sainath]

Thanks for your answer Ross.

But no, I already did that and tried again. The "randomvalue" is not
getting reflected. The variable still has "temp" in it.

Nithya.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

>
> On 9 July 2015 at 13:12, Nithyakala Sainath <nithisai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But d.setVar("TEMPDIR", "randomvalue") in place of os.environ does the
>> mgic. Why can't we manipulate the environmental variable using os.environ ?
>
>
> Because in "echo ${TEMPDIR}" the variable is expanded by bitbake, not the
> shell.  Use $TEMPDIR.
>
> Ross
>
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