i've whined about this before, but i think the proper use of FILESEXTRAPATHS needs to be explained more completely than what's currently in the variable glossary here:
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.4/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-FILESEXTRAPATHS i mentioned that, when i first figured out how it worked, i wrote it up here (needs a bit of updating, yes, i know): http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/FILESEXTRAPATHS_and_bbappend_files but the important point is, of course, that FILESEXTRAPATHS extends FILESPATH with a *number* of search dirs. unless that's made really clear, new developers are going to get confused if they look at existing recipes for guidance on how to use it. rday p.s. i also notice that the standard value of FILESPATH has some redundancy. using an example related to beagleboard and psplash, you can see that the .../psplash/" subdirectory is listed twice -- same happens with the other subdirectories. ... snip ... /home/rpjday/oe/dist/layers/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash/arm /home/rpjday/oe/dist/layers/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash/armv7a /home/rpjday/oe/dist/layers/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash/beagleboard /home/rpjday/oe/dist/layers/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash/ /home/rpjday/oe/dist/layers/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash/ ... snip ... doesn't hurt, of course, but unnecessary. -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
