[yocto] BBMASK does not work

[Andre McCurdy]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Takashi Matsuzawa
<tmatsuzawa at uievolution.com> wrote:
> OK, I figured this out that I can add my BBMASK lines to my
> conf/distro/xxx.conf fille.
>
> So that I can append to what BSP defines and it seems to happen before
> collect_bbbfiles() function.

An alternative to masking out each .bbappend might be to set:

BB_DANGLINGAPPENDS_WARNONLY = "true"

>
> Sorry for my confusion.
>
> ________________________________
> From: Takashi Matsuzawa
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 6:13 PM
> To: yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: BBMASK does not work
>
>
> Well, I tried adding debug lines to poky/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py, and I
> think what is happening is:
>
> i) BSP has BBMASK = xxxx line.
> ii) I add BBMASK_forcevariable = yyyy line to my local.conf
> iii) If I check with -e option, I can see BBMASK variable is finally set to
> "yyyy"
> iv) However, when cooker.py is run, matching bbmask file list with recipe
> paths, the original "xxxx" line is used for matching.
>
> I feel, the recipe files matching is being done before BBMASK is finally set
> to "yyyy".  Instead, they are matches against "xxxx" it is the initial
> BBMASK value set by BSP.
>
> This is fido, and jethro may be behave differently (since on jethro based
> build this seemed to work)?
>
>
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