From: Chris Larson <clarson@kergoth.com>
To: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
Cc: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: questions about bitbake world
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:58:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABcZANm628Wm0TYo45eSjLsVjzpseV=4__he=s=Lz_r1ekyJBw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F83EE3C.8040904@windriver.com>
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com> wrote:
> In the following code:
>
> def buildWorldTargetList(self):
> ...
> for f in self.status.possible_world:
> terminal = True
> pn = self.status.pkg_fn[f]
>
> for p in pn_provides[pn]:
> if p.startswith('virtual/'):
> parselog.debug(2, "World build skipping %s due to %s
> provider starting with virtual/", f, p)
> terminal = False
> break
> ...
>
> Does it mean that if a recipe contains:
>
> PROVIDES = "virtual/something"
>
> Then it would not be built until a pkg depends on it? Why we design it in
> this
> way, please?
The original intent with world was that when two recipes provided the
same thing, we'd still only want to build one of them, not both, as
building both can cause problems with stepping on one another in
sysroot, etc.
--
Christopher Larson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-10 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-10 8:24 questions about bitbake world Robert Yang
2012-04-10 13:58 ` Chris Larson [this message]
2012-04-10 14:12 ` Robert Yang
2012-04-10 14:15 ` Chris Larson
2012-04-13 0:52 ` Robert Yang
2012-04-13 2:44 ` Christopher Larson
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