1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
index d5ded2f680..fbac34edfd 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
@@ -384,12 +384,19 @@ def modify(args, config, basepath, workspace):
         f.write('inherit externalsrc\n')
         f.write('# NOTE: We use pn- overrides here to avoid affecting multiple variants in the case where the recipe uses BBCLASSEXTEND\n')
         f.write('EXTERNALSRC_pn-%s = "%s"\n' % (args.recipename, srctree))
-        if args.same_dir or bb.data.inherits_class('autotools-brokensep', rd):
-            if args.same_dir:
-                logger.info('using source tree as build directory since --same-dir specified')
-            else:
-                logger.info('using source tree as build directory since original recipe inherits autotools-brokensep')
+
+        b_is_s = True
+        if args.same_dir:
+            logger.info('using source tree as build directory since --same-dir specified')
+        elif bb.data.inherits_class('autotools-brokensep', rd):
+            logger.info('using source tree as build directory since original recipe inherits autotools-brokensep')
+        elif rd.getVar('B', True) == s:
+            logger.info('using source tree as build directory since that is the default for this recipe')
+        else:
+            b_is_s = False
+        if b_is_s:
             f.write('EXTERNALSRC_BUILD_pn-%s = "%s"\n' % (args.recipename, srctree))
+
         if initial_rev:
             f.write('\n# initial_rev: %s\n' % initial_rev)
             for commit in commits: