From 5e4e9acd323b5ebc3a14c07384f6cf8f8a272066 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Robert P. J. Day" Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 06:19:36 -0400 Subject: doc: mention that addtask handles multiple dependencies Add a note explaining that "addtask" can accept multiple dependencies, just in case someone runs across such an example and is confused. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst index 7ea68ade7..dcf664ebf 100644 --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst @@ -1296,6 +1296,17 @@ For more information on task dependencies, see the See the ":ref:`bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata:variable flags`" section for information on variable flags you can use with tasks. +.. note:: + + While it's infrequent, it's possible to define multiple tasks as + dependencies when calling ``addtask``. For example, here's a snippet + from the OpenEmbedded class file ``package_tar.bbclass``:: + + addtask package_write_tar before do_build after do_packagedata do_package + + Note how the ``package_write_tar`` task has to wait until both of + ``do_packagedata`` and ``do_package`` complete. + Deleting a Task --------------- -- cgit 1.2.3-korg