[OE-core] ALLOW_EMPTY versus ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}? a couple clarifications
Richard Purdie
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Sun Mar 3 15:56:29 UTC 2013
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 09:10 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> just trying to clarify the gory details of the ALLOW_EMPTY setting.
> first, across several .bb files, there is a mixture of these two:
>
> ALLOW_EMPTY = "1"
> ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
>
> what's the difference? what does the first one represent if you're
> not specific? does that cover *all* generated packages?
FWIW, a package name should generally be specified. I've just sent a
patch to OE-Core updating the various references.
Cheers,
Richard
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