Bug 5861

Summary:	SDKMACHINE can't be set in the distro config
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, sgw, srifenbark
Version:	1.5.1
Target Milestone:	1.6
Hardware:	All
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:	02 April 2014: Doc flag set to "Done."
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Done (doc changes complete)

Description Paul Eggleton 2014-02-21 10:04:28 UTC

If you set SDKMACHINE in the distro config it will not have any effect; this is because of the ordering in meta/conf/bitbake.conf:

...
include conf/machine-sdk/${SDKMACHINE}.conf
include conf/distro/${DISTRO}.conf
...

The value won't get set until after the line where its value would have any effect has been parsed. Assuming we can't reorder the includes in bitbake.conf, I think we should add a check in sanity.bbclass to see if the include actually happened assuming SDKMACHINE has a value. This should be a simple matter of checking BBINCLUDED.

Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2014-03-31 23:24:13 UTC

Added a check in sanity.bbclass to determine if the SDKMACHINE value has really taken effect; this has now been merged:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=49f2bc450c1dd969eba30287050e25030116b714

We need to note in the manual that SDKMACHINE cannot be set in the distro config.

Comment 2 Scott Rifenbark 2014-04-02 12:16:46 UTC

See http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-SDKMACHINE for the note that takes care of this doc part.

I have run the changes by Paul and he approved them.

Setting the documentation flag to "Done."

Scott