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From: "Enrico Scholz" <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>
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Subject: Re: [bitbake-devel] Trouble capturing layer revision as variable in recipe
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"Chris Laplante via lists.openembedded.org"
<chris.laplante=agilent.com@lists.openembedded.org> writes:

> OUR_LAYER_PATH := "${@get_layer_path(d, "meta-our-layer")}"

fwiw, we capture this location by 'LAYERDIR_<layer> := "${LAYERDIR}"'
within our layer.conf[1].

It would be nice, when bitbake adds such a variable automatically...


Enrico

Footnotes:
[1]  https://github.com/sigma-embedded/meta-de.sigma-chemnitz/blob/5c4f79148e72d5c009be322e5cc32256ffb58bb4/conf/layer.conf#L17