[meta-freescale] Fw: [yocto] dynamic-layers?

[Takashi Matsuzawa]

Not really circular dependency, but my actual case looked like below.

meta-freescale wants to detect meta-qt5 and meta-openembedded.
I have an image that has a layer meta-A who wants to detect bsp type (here, freescale-layer or meta-freescale) also looking into BB_COLLECTIONS.

In this case maybe I need to list the layers as follows.

meta-qt5
meta-openembedded
meta-freescale
meta-B
meta-A

But at the same time, I have configuration for other boards which may look like below.
I want to have the layers (bblayers.conf definition) look similar among the build flavors.
(and it will also reduce the risk of changing something for various builds)
But in this situation I just cannnot replace meta-board-X with meta-freescale.

meta-board-X
--- (common begin)
meta-qt5
meta-openembedded
meta-B
meta-A
--- (common end)

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From: Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 11:23 PM
To: Takashi Matsuzawa
Cc: meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] Fw: [yocto] dynamic-layers?

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Takashi Matsuzawa <tmatsuzawa at xevo.com> wrote:
> Well, I see a potential issue with this.  What if I have layers that have
> circular (parse order) dependency like below.
>
> L-A - Wants to detect presense of L-B
> L-B - Wants to detect presense of L-C
> L-C - Wants to detect presense of L-A
>
> Is there any guideline about in which order bblayers files are expected to
> appear/parsed, so that L-C is not written to have cirtular (parse order)
> dependency.

We usually put them on priority order; the circular dependency might
be a problem but I never got a use-case for this. Do you have one?

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