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| author |   Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com> | 2019-09-10 15:43:28 +0200 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-09-10 15:18:06 +0100 |
| commit | 4abf4125f0a098e0cb02700c0412be9a83c514c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ebcdab42b863957da7fb5110571d9cea761ec30 /bitbake | |
| parent | 504fa7ee15817b3b4907c489d5c198bd3ca5435b (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-4abf4125f0a098e0cb02700c0412be9a83c514c0.tar.gz | |
bitbake: bitbake-user-manual: key-expansion: Don't refer to overrides
Nowadays bitbake applies overrides dynamically, not at a single
specific point in time during parsing.
(Bitbake rev: 218431b0f7c97764cb2c0b79a3aadfe2007f490b)
Signed-off-by: Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'bitbake')
| -rw-r--r-- | bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml index 6b49d7fa8b..421364c2cf 100644 --- a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml +++ b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml @@ -799,17 +799,15 @@ <title>Key Expansion</title> <para> - Key expansion happens when the BitBake datastore is finalized - just before BitBake expands overrides. + Key expansion happens when the BitBake datastore is finalized. To better understand this, consider the following example: <literallayout class='monospaced'> A${B} = "X" B = "2" A2 = "Y" </literallayout> - In this case, after all the parsing is complete, and - before any overrides are handled, BitBake expands - <filename>${B}</filename> into "2". + In this case, after all the parsing is complete, + BitBake expands <filename>${B}</filename> into "2". This expansion causes <filename>A2</filename>, which was set to "Y" before the expansion, to become "X". </para> |