[yocto] bbappend a "required" bb file
Gary Thomas
gary at mlbassoc.com
Fri Sep 25 13:04:18 PDT 2015
On 2015-09-25 09:38, Christopher Larson wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Allen Curtis <ajcurtis at ac2enterprises.com <mailto:ajcurtis at ac2enterprises.com>> wrote:
>
> I am working with a BSP that has multiple image recipes.
>
> foo-hwbringup-image.bb <http://foo-hwbringup-image.bb>
> foo-qt5demo-image.bb <http://foo-qt5demo-image.bb>
>
> foo-qt5demo-image.bb <http://foo-qt5demo-image.bb> contains "require foo-hwbringup-image.bb <http://foo-hwbringup-image.bb>"
>
> However if I create foo-hwbringup-image.bbappend, it gets ignored.
>
> What are the rules with appending included recipes?
>
>
> bbappends do not append arbitrary files, only recipes (and in this case, the inclusion treats them as an arbitrary file). They do not apply to anything included or required, only
> the recipe itself. So you'll need to bbappend every recipe that includes foo-hwbringup-image.bb <http://foo-hwbringup-image.bb> in this case.
What's the argument against requires picking up any .bbappends?
I agree with the original poster - this seems only natural and
would be extremely useful, not necessitating jumping through
hoops like "IMAGE_FEATURES", etc.
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