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| author |   Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> | 2016-07-14 12:00:09 -0700 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-07-21 07:47:53 +0100 |
| commit | 4bc1ee5de4227bf00c1f25f9dc35717896b085f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 550955abfc100167023475cd7191f7a0965b34f3 | |
| parent | 35081f55185a8a9804c21b16cd4600ba70646a10 (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-4bc1ee5de4227bf00c1f25f9dc35717896b085f0.tar.gz | |
bitbake: bitbake-user-manual: Added review changes to recursive section.
Applied formatting to a "after" word that should be
<filename>after</filename>. Also added a new clarifying paragraph in
the "Recursive Dependencies" section.
Fixes [YOCTO #9861]
(Bitbake rev: ada90f68afd17cb85cb5957f3f91b537ee3599f6)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 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 857f8b279c..4cc647fe4b 100644 --- a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml +++ b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml @@ -1686,7 +1686,7 @@ recipe is built. In this example, <filename>mytask</filename> is run at an unspecified time relative to other tasks within - the recipe, since "after" is not used. + the recipe, since <filename>after</filename> is not used. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> The directive @@ -1773,6 +1773,19 @@ </para> <para> + The "recrdeptask" flag is most commonly used in high-level + recipes that need to wait for some task to finish "globally". + For example, <filename>image.bbclass</filename> has the following: + <literallayout class='monospaced'> + do_rootfs[recrdeptask] += "do_packagedata" + </literallayout> + This statement says that the <filename>do_packagedata</filename> + task of all recipes reachable (by way of dependencies) from the + image recipe must run before the <filename>do_rootfs</filename> + task can run. + </para> + + <para> You might want to not only have BitBake look for dependencies of those tasks, but also have BitBake look for build-time and runtime dependencies of the dependent |