Just a few minutes ago I was wondering if such a feature did exist... I ran into a situation where I wanted to remove something from a .bbappend that is added to a variable using VARIABLE_append = "this and that"
Manuel On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Peter Seebach <peter.seeb...@windriver.com> wrote: > There's a few cases where something is a huge list of space-separated > things, and it is desireable to remove one. The example currently > afflicting me is DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC_DEFAULT; I want to end up with > the distro features including all but one of the words in it. > > It seems to me that a counterpart to _append would make sense. Here > is my basic idea: > > FOO_subtract = "..." > > means that, when you expand FOO: > > 1. Fully expand it. > 2. Fully expand FOO_subtract. > 3. Remove any words in FOO_subtract from FOO. > 4. Yield the result. > > The rationale is that the semantics of things where we're using _append > seem to be consistently of the form "this is a space-separated set", > and being able to remove things from a set would be Super Handy. > > So I'm proposing the semantics for consideration, and if people like > them, I will go try to implement it in my Copious Free Time. > > -s > -- > Listen, get this. Nobody with a good compiler needs to be justified. > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
