Re: [poky] machine or vendor specific execution of a function

On Wed, 2025-04-30 at 07:43 -0700, John via lists.yoctoproject.org
wrote:
> I've run into this construct a few times with my work in upgrading
> the customers older dunfell Yocto system to Scarthgap in recipes:
>  
> do_compile:append:<some specific string specifier>(){
> ....
> }
>  
> It appears to very problematic both in functions and variable value
> definitions. What is that string specifier? In the case I'm running
> into it is set to "qoriq" usually. But in a few examples in the
> vendor's code I see it set to "qoriq-ppc". Which is correct? From a
> high level both are correct but neither will give the desire
> approach. Since locally we are only building for one platform I can
> just remove it and this will work for my situation.
>  
> Where is this value being set and how do I find out which one I want?
> There is no machine called "qoriq" or "qoriq-ppc". There is a MACHINE
> variable (in my case t1024rdb-64b) but setting it to that doesn't
> work either. 
> 

It will be a value in OVERRIDES, which contains elements from
DISTROOVERRIDES and MACHINEOVERIDES but could be added standalone too.

You can learn more about overrides in the manuals.

Cheers,

Richard