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-rw-r--r--bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 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 88622421db..6b49d7fa8b 100644
--- a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
+++ b/bitbake/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>