[poky] [PATCH] Making using layers even friendlier
Richard Purdie
rpurdie at linux.intel.com
Thu Dec 9 06:44:47 PST 2010
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 06:11 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm building poky for a number of unique platforms which I
> want to keep logically separate. By using the new BBLAYERS
> support, this is working out quite well.
>
> However, I find it cumbersome to start a new build for a given
> platform. This is because conf/local.conf and conf/bblayers.conf
> need to be tailored for that platform. In particular, the file
> conf/bblayers.conf needs to be modified to incorporate the
> meta layers used by the given platform.
>
> By incorporating the attached patch, this can now be done easily
> on the initial build tree setup. Just run something like this:
> % POKYCONF=meta-board1/conf . <POKYBASE>/poky-init-build-env my_build_tree
> As the build tree is set up, the files from <POKYBASE>/meta-board1/conf
> will be used to populate the <BUILD>/conf directory. These can then
> be adjusted as necessary. The patch allows for the provided config
> files to be either <POKYBASE> relative or absolute, allowing even
> more flexibility.
>
> Comments?
I think its a reasonable idea and I've added it to master.
Cheers,
Richard
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