[yocto] Can SRC_URI look in the same place for two different machines?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Giordon Stark wrote:

> Right, so the problem for me is that there seems to be two ways to
> do this: MACHINEOVERRIDES .= ":machine3" (for 3a, 3b)
>
> or
>
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_append_machine3a = "${THISDIR}/files/machine3/"
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_append_machine3b = "${THISDIR}/files/machine3/"
>
> But it's not clear to me which is better.... or fits with the
> philosophy of yocto/bitbake.

  i used something like this once upon a time, can't remember where i
wrote it up, but i asked about it in some detail back here:

https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2016-March/028923.html

perhaps someone can verify if i made any sense back then.

rday