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authorJacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com>2019-09-10 15:43:27 +0200
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2019-09-10 15:17:58 +0100
commitf9b67433cb4fe5132ab2cf4a9c6bc078b42e1960 (patch)
tree773d1c416d67e509b5b2af1bae5aff2877ced45c
parent89dd570ebd7046f5bce4a8b7f3b2b50b1cf65589 (diff)
downloadbitbake-f9b67433cb4fe5132ab2cf4a9c6bc078b42e1960.tar.gz
bitbake-user-manual: Correct description for _append/_prepend/_remove
The effects of _append/_prepend/_remove are applied when a variable is expanded, not after parsing has completed. Signed-off-by: Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
index 88622421d..6b49d7fa8 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
@@ -369,9 +369,8 @@
<para>
These operators differ from the ":=", ".=", "=.", "+=", and "=+"
- operators in that their effects are deferred
- until after parsing completes rather than being immediately
- applied.
+ operators in that their effects are applied at variable
+ expansion time rather than being immediately applied.
Here are some examples:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
B = "bval"
@@ -435,7 +434,7 @@
<para>
Like "_append" and "_prepend", "_remove"
- is deferred until after parsing completes.
+ is applied at variable expansion time.
</para>
</section>