Paul, thanks so much! On Aug 21, 2013, at 7:26 AM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Brad, > > On Tuesday 20 August 2013 23:42:36 Brad Litterell wrote: >> Thanks - that makes it clearer. But now I have one other question to ask: >> >> if virtual/xyz is added to overrides when the item is dealt with, then in >> that case P_P_virtual/xyz_am335 has two overrides hanging off of the base >> variable PREFERRED_PROVIDER. >> >> You also said earlier that the latest override applies, so is there some >> rule for multiple conditionals on a variable? > > Yes, effectively all must be in OVERRIDES for the assignment statement to > take > effect. > >> E.g. What happens in a case like the following? >> >> OVERRIDES="foo1:bar2:car3" >> >> VARIABLE_foo1_bar2 = "both" >> VARIABLE_car3 = "last one" >> >> what does VARIABLE wind up? The first is "more specific" in that it matches >> two values in overrides, whereas car is last, but less specific. > > I would have thought that the value would have been "last one" however > experimentation shows that "both" is what you actually get. I'm not exactly > sure why. In practice I don't think we hit this kind of situation too often > though, i.e. a mix of double and single overrides where the single override > needs to take precedence. > > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > > Paul Eggleton > Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
