what is the 'd' variable in bitbake recipes?

[Neabex]

This is proving incredibly hard to google for since searching for 'd' aliases to so many things. Do you guys know where I can find documentation about this variable?

[Don deJuan]

On 11/10/2013 09:05 PM, Neabex wrote:

This is proving incredibly hard to google for since searching for 'd' aliases to so many things. Do you guys know where I can find documentation about this variable?

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Do you mean
-D
or
-d
D – Tells BitBake where to install the completed application and its files in preparation for packaging.

-d, --disable-psyco

disable using the psyco just-in-time compiler (not recommended)

All this is in
man bitbake

[sanchayan maity]

http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/usermanual.html

The above documentation should clear your query

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Neabex <nick...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is proving incredibly hard to google for since searching for 'd' aliases to so many things. Do you guys know where I can find documentation about this variable?

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[Neabex]

Don:

I'm not talking about an argument to bitbake, but a variable that seems to exist in the context of all .bb files execution.

Victor: 

It's not documented in that manual either but I think it might be a shortcut to bb.data 

I think it's some 'datasmart' variable that aggregates passed in arguments from various other bitbake recipes.

example :

d.getVar('PN', True)

[Don deJuan]

Maybe this is what you mean. Found in the manual

NOTE:

This is only supported in .bb and .bbclass files.

def get_depends(bb, d):

if bb.data.getVar(’SOMECONDITION’, d, 1):

return "dependencywithcond"

else:

return "dependency"

SOMECONDITION

= "1"

DEPENDS

= "${@get_depends(bb, d)}"

This would result in

DEPENDS

containing

dependencywithcond

[Jack Mitchell]

I would ask on the OpenEmbedded mailing list for the correct answer, the
other answers currently given are wrong. The bitbake manual will be the
best place to find the answer on your own, however it is significantly
dated at the moment.

====+GUESS+====
I imagine d is an object which represents a recipe. As it is a variable
though, it could really be anything and possibly different depending on
the context.
====+GUESS+====

Cheers,
Jack.

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[Jack Mitchell]

Please do not give this link out, it refers to OpenEmbedded Classic and
as such is depreciated.

On 11/11/13 05:10, sanchayan maity wrote:
> http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/usermanual.html
>
> The above documentation should clear your query
>
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> This is proving incredibly hard to google for since searching for
> 'd' aliases to so many things. Do you guys know where I can find
> documentation about this variable?
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[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2013, Jack Mitchell wrote:

> I would ask on the OpenEmbedded mailing list for the correct answer, the
> other answers currently given are wrong. The bitbake manual will be the
> best place to find the answer on your own, however it is significantly
> dated at the moment.

i'm pretty sure it's simply the global "data dictionary", which
keeps track of all of the relevant variables and their values.

rday

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