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Confused as to why runtime variables (RDEPENDS, RPROVIDES, etc) require package name overrides
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brownij6@...
Essentially I don't understand why variables like RDEPENDS require a package name conditional override such as "RDEPENDS_${PN}" while other variables, including DEPENDS, do not require this. Isn't putting the package name as a conditional after the variable pointless, since bitbake only parses the variables from the recipe it is currently building? I feel like my confusion may stem from some fundamental misunderstanding of the way the build system works.
Thanks for your help, James
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kergoth@...
It doesn't have anything to do with parsing. A single bitbake recipe will write multiple binary packages by splitting up its files, so each binary package it writes has its own metadata.
On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 10:45 AM <brownij6@...> wrote: Essentially I don't understand why variables like RDEPENDS require a package name conditional override such as "RDEPENDS_${PN}" while other variables, including DEPENDS, do not require this. Isn't putting the package name as a conditional after the variable pointless, since bitbake only parses the variables from the recipe it is currently building? I feel like my confusion may stem from some fundamental misunderstanding of the way the build system works. --
Christopher Larson chris_larson@..., chris.larson@..., kergoth@... Principal Software Engineer, Embedded Linux Solutions, Siemens Digital Industries Software
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