[yocto] How to find the source of a variable value?

[Paul D. DeRocco]

> > From: Burton, Ross
> > 
> > The default DISTRO_FEATURES includes x11, so that's where 
> it's coming
> > from.  If you're using oe-core/poky from git master, you can do
> > DISTRO_FEATURES_remove="x11" in your configuration, or else you'll
> > need to set DISTRO_FEATURES to the current value, minus x11.
> 
> Thanks, but that doesn't work. I still get the same error 
> messages. In the
> bitbake -e output I can see my entry:
> 
> # DISTRO_FEATURES_remove=x11
> DISTRO_FEATURES_remove="x11"
> 
> and I can see the same old DISTRO_FEATURES further down:
> 
> # DISTRO_FEATURES=alsa argp bluetooth ext2 irda largefile
> pcmcia usbgadget usbhost wifi xattr nfs zeroconf pci 3g
> x11 ${DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC} largefile
> opengl${@oe.utils.features_backfill("DISTRO_FEATURES",d)}
> DISTRO_FEATURES="alsa argp bluetooth ext2 irda largefile
> pcmcia usbgadget usbhost wifi xattr nfs zeroconf pci 3g
> x11 ipv4 ipv6 libc-backtrace libc-big-macros libc-bsd
> libc-cxx-tests libc-catgets libc-charsets libc-crypt
> libc-crypt-ufc libc-db-aliases libc-envz libc-fcvt
> libc-fmtmsg libc-fstab libc-ftraverse
> libc-getlogin libc-idn libc-inet-anl libc-libm
> libc-libm-big libc-locales libc-locale-code
> libc-memusage libc-nis libc-nsswitch libc-rcmd
> libc-rtld-debug libc-spawn libc-streams libc-sunrpc
> libc-utmp libc-utmpx libc-wordexp libc-posix-clang-wchar
> libc-posix-regexp libc-posix-regexp-glibc
> libc-posix-wchar-io largefile opengl pulseaudio"
> 
> Any other ideas?

Is this _remove something new? I'm using the Gumstix-provided metadata and
tools, which are from the Dylan branch. If that's the issue, must I
explicitly set DISTRO_FEATURES to the big long list in local.conf?

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