From ba31e4eabd31af63eb0244096c8bcdcac185fac6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Khem Raj Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 22:48:03 +0000 Subject: conf/layer.conf: Use .= for BBPATH and += for BBFILES Provide additional commentary that should help a bit more Signed-off-by: Khem Raj Acked-by: Paul Menzel Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi --- meta-oe/conf/layer.conf | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'meta-oe/conf') diff --git a/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf b/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf index 9fa60c1c49..267616b623 100644 --- a/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf +++ b/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf @@ -1,9 +1,24 @@ -# We have a conf and classes directory, prepend to BBPATH to prefer our versions -BBPATH := "${LAYERDIR}:${BBPATH}" +# It really depends on order of the layers appearing in BBLAYERS +# variable in toplevel bblayers.conf file, where bitbake will search +# for .inc files and others where bitbake uses BBPATH since it will +# search the directories from first to last as specified in BBPATH +# Therefore if you want a given layer to be considered high priority +# for the .inc and .conf etc. then consider it adding at the beginning +# of BBPATH. For bblayers bitbake will use BBFILES_PRIORITY to resolve +# the recipe contention so the order of directories in BBFILES does +# not matter. + +# We have a conf and classes directory, append to BBPATH +BBPATH .= ":${LAYERDIR}" # We have a recipes directory, add to BBFILES -BBFILES := "${BBFILES} ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bb ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend" +BBFILES += "${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bb ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend" BBFILE_COLLECTIONS += "openembedded-layer" BBFILE_PATTERN_openembedded-layer := "^${LAYERDIR}/" + +# Define the priority for recipes (.bb files) from this layer, +# choosing carefully how this layer interacts with all of the +# other layers. + BBFILE_PRIORITY_openembedded-layer = "6" -- cgit 1.2.3-korg