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-rw-r--r--doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-hello.xml2
-rw-r--r--doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml11
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-hello.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-hello.xml
index f6d82b4f3..8b7edbff5 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-hello.xml
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-hello.xml
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ ERROR: Unable to parse base: ParseError in configuration INHERITs: Could not inh
<link linkend='var-BBFILES'>BBFILES</link> += "${LAYERDIR}/*.bb"
<link linkend='var-BBFILE_COLLECTIONS'>BBFILE_COLLECTIONS</link> += "mylayer"
- <link linkend='var-BBFILE_PATTERN'>BBFILE_PATTERN_mylayer</link> := "^${LAYERDIR}/"
+ <link linkend='var-BBFILE_PATTERN'>BBFILE_PATTERN_mylayer</link> := "^${LAYERDIR_RE}/"
</literallayout>
For information on these variables, click the links
to go to the definitions in the glossary.</para>
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml
index ae7e4cee8..4d06ff950 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml
@@ -1636,6 +1636,17 @@
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id='var-LAYERDIR_RE'><glossterm>LAYERDIR_RE</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>When used inside the <filename>layer.conf</filename> configuration
+ file, this variable provides the path of the current layer,
+ escaped for use in a regular expression
+ (<link linkend='var-BBFILE_PATTERN'><filename>BBFILE_PATTERN</filename></link>).
+ This variable is not available outside of <filename>layer.conf</filename>
+ and references are expanded immediately when parsing of the file completes.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id='var-LAYERVERSION'><glossterm>LAYERVERSION</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Optionally specifies the version of a layer as a single number.