[OE-core] Unexpected behavior with class-native and class-target in combination with inherit(_defer)

[Jasper Orschulko via lists.openembedded.org]

Hi,

we are on the latest scarthgap and trying to use class-target to do
target specific overrides, as described in
https://docs.yoctoproject.org/4.0.20/singleindex.html#native.

We tried removing python from PACKAGECONFIG:class-target. However, this
breaks the native build of libxml2.

This is due to the following inherit_defer statement not being called
on native:
https://github.com/yoctoproject/poky/blob/cf9d8807f80c5715daed11b5bcbb4378dcbcbd54/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.12.8.bb#L39

We were able to reproduce this with a minimal example consisting of a
.bb file and a .bbclass file:


test.bb:
```
SUMMARY = "Test"
LICENSE = "CLOSED"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = ""

SOMEVAR = "foo bar"
SOMEVAR:remove:class-target = "bar"

inherit_defer ${@bb.utils.contains('SOMEVAR', 'bar', 'testclass', '',
d)}

do_install() {
    install -d ${D}/test/
    echo "Value SOMEVAR: ${SOMEVAR}" >> ${D}/test/output
    echo "Value TESTCLASSVAR: ${TESTCLASSVAR}" >> ${D}/test/output
    echo "SOMEVAR contains 'foo'? ${@bb.utils.contains('SOMEVAR',
'foo', 'true', 'false', d)}" >> ${D}/test/output
    echo "SOMEVAR contains 'bar'? ${@bb.utils.contains('SOMEVAR',
'bar', 'true', 'false', d)}" >> ${D}/test/output
}

FILES:${PN} += "/test/output"

BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
```

and testclass.bbclass:
```
TESTCLASSVAR = "foobar"
```

We would expect that the inherit is executed for native, but not for
target, thus the variable TESTCLASSVAR to be set in native. However,
inherit is not called for either of them, as seen in the test output:

Target:
```
Value SOMEVAR: foo 
Value TESTCLASSVAR: 
SOMEVAR contains 'foo'? true
SOMEVAR contains 'bar'? false
```

Native:
```
Value SOMEVAR: foo bar
Value TESTCLASSVAR:
SOMEVAR contains 'foo'? true
SOMEVAR contains 'bar'? true
```

Vice versa, when removing from class-native the inherit statement is
always called, not only on the target as we would expect.

Is this a known limitation or a bug?

Best,
Jasper

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