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| author |   Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> | 2019-04-19 09:51:59 -0700 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-05-07 10:23:41 +0100 |
| commit | f60698d54b5bda031eab9f24359a9fd44669c23b (patch) | |
| tree | 6c3e6956ed9338d549206356684c6e4f3d9cc8b6 /documentation | |
| parent | 237b2255529cd17a409941e88c7070d454c33b96 (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-f60698d54b5bda031eab9f24359a9fd44669c23b.tar.gz | |
dev-manual: Added reasoning blurb to "Viewing Variables" section.
I put a new introductory paragraph in the "Viewing Variables"
section that alludes to why you might want to see variables.
Also, I linked to the section "Modifying Variable Values" in
the BB manual.
(From yocto-docs rev: 6e18524ba62d2ff1231184467b0dd24dab33cfe6)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml index 5ac167d051..0fcb7b7064 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml @@ -12526,6 +12526,16 @@ <title>Viewing Variable Values</title> <para> + Sometimes you need to know the value of a variable as a + result of BitBake's parsing step. + This could be because some unexpected behavior occurred + in your project. + Perhaps an attempt to + <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BB_URL;#modifying-existing-variables'>modify a variable</ulink> + did not work out as expected. + </para> + + <para> BitBake's <filename>-e</filename> option is used to display variable values after parsing. The following command displays the variable values after the |