[poky] Problem with METADATA_* vars

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
> I have a simple recipe that does:
>
> export METADATA_REVISION
> export METADATA_BRANCH
> export TARGET_SYS
>
> do_install() {
>     install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}
>     echo "Angstrom ${DISTRO_VERSION}" > ${D}${sysconfdir}/angstrom-version
>     echo "Built from branch: ${METADATA_BRANCH}" >>
> ${D}${sysconfdir}/angstrom-version
>     echo "Revision: ${METADATA_REVISION}" >>
> ${D}${sysconfdir}/angstrom-version
>     echo "Target system: ${TARGET_SYS}" >>
> ${D}${sysconfdir}/angstrom-version
>
>     [..]
> }

I realize this isn't a fix for the problem you're reporting, but your
exports are completely unnecessary here.  Your uses of ${} inside a
shell function are expanded by bitbake, not the shell.
-- 
Christopher Larson
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Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics