From 218431b0f7c97764cb2c0b79a3aadfe2007f490b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Kroon Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:43:28 +0200 Subject: 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. Signed-off-by: Jacob Kroon Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml index 6b49d7fa8..421364c2c 100644 --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml @@ -799,17 +799,15 @@ Key Expansion - 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: A${B} = "X" B = "2" A2 = "Y" - In this case, after all the parsing is complete, and - before any overrides are handled, BitBake expands - ${B} into "2". + In this case, after all the parsing is complete, + BitBake expands ${B} into "2". This expansion causes A2, which was set to "Y" before the expansion, to become "X". -- cgit 1.2.3-korg