Oh, this might explain some weird errors I was having. See the
de-duplication patch last week or so for oeqa.

Ross

On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 at 12:01, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie@...> wrote:

We can re-trigger this code and there is little point in stacking a ton of duplicate
paths which just waste time during searches for modules. This could in theory alter
layer module search order but that seems unlikely in common use.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@...>
---
meta/classes/base.bbclass | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/classes/base.bbclass b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
index cc81461473f..e51722d945d 100644
--- a/meta/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS ??= ""
def oe_import(d):
import sys

- bbpath = d.getVar("BBPATH").split(":")
- sys.path[0:0] = [os.path.join(dir, "lib") for dir in bbpath]
+ bbpath = [os.path.join(dir, "lib") for dir in d.getVar("BBPATH").split(":")]
+ sys.path[0:0] = [dir for dir in bbpath if dir not in sys.path]

def inject(name, value):
"""Make a python object accessible from the metadata"""
--
2.32.0