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== BitBake's passthrough environment variables ==

When you need to manage custom variables in a script having an impact with Bitbake,
it is possible to add custom environment variables to BitBake's passthrough mechanism.

#!/bin/bash
#
# A script to demonstrate adding custom environment variables to BitBake's passthrough mechanism.
#

export CUSTOM="CustomValue"
export MYVAR=$CUSTOM-$USER
BB_ENV_PASSTHROUGH_ADDITIONS="$BB_ENV_PASSTHROUGH_ADDITIONS MYVAR"
bitbake -e os-release | grep ^MYVAR=

Execution example

$ ../bitbake-test-passthrough.sh
MYVAR="custom_value-tux"

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