Bug 7670

Summary:	Proposal: make TOPDIR or BUILDDIR available to the devshell
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Christopher Larson <kergoth>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Christopher Larson <kergoth>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, randy.macleod, richard.purdie
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	3.3
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Christopher Larson 2015-04-27 23:11:09 UTC

I've found a need, quite regularly, for the path of the top of my build, so e.g. I can quickly copy patches back out of WORKDIR, so I think there'd be value there, unless there's concern about said export breaking manual builds of something. Alternatively, create a temporary symlink in WORKDIR.

Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2015-04-30 15:07:50 UTC

Sounds reasonable to me, fancy sending a patch? :)

Comment 2 Christopher Larson 2015-09-15 22:54:49 UTC

Submitted patch to oe-core list for review.

Comment 3 Christopher Larson 2015-09-25 18:56:47 UTC

Not entirely happy with this implementation, postponing.

Comment 4 Christopher Larson 2015-12-11 19:18:06 UTC

New approach: just prefix the variable names and sidestep the issue, and avoid the need for a symlink or such overhead. See https://github.com/MentorEmbedded/meta-mentor/pull/636. Will submit an oe-core rfc patch.

Comment 5 Richard Purdie 2016-07-25 21:33:13 UTC

The patch seems ok to me, did this ever make it to the mailing list?

Comment 6 Randy MacLeod 2019-11-14 15:59:42 UTC

Ping?

Comment 7 Randy MacLeod 2020-11-19 16:19:02 UTC

Chris, we're happy to take a patch if you need this to be fixed.