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diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..90aafea9c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/README @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Documentation +============= + +This is the directory that contains the BitBake documentation. + +Manual Organization +=================== + +Folders exist for individual manuals as follows: + +* user-manual - The BitBake User Manual + +Each folder is self-contained regarding content and figures. + +If you want to find HTML versions of the BitBake manuals on the web, +go to http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Documentation. + +Makefile +======== + +The Makefile processes manual directories to create HTML, PDF, +tarballs, etc. Details on how the Makefile work are documented +inside the Makefile. See that file for more information. + +To build a manual, you run the make command and pass it the name +of the folder containing the manual's contents. +For example, the following command run from the documentation directory +creates an HTML and a PDF version of the BitBake User Manual. +The DOC variable specifies the manual you are making: + + $ make DOC=user-manual + +template +======== +Contains various templates, fonts, and some old PNG files. + +tools +===== +Contains a tool to convert the DocBook files to PDF format. |