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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2012-09-14 12:35:05 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2012-09-24 16:36:04 +0100
commit21ce4e481ee812aa17ba5a08b327d91fa241c4c5 (patch)
tree8e5ab52a165cb66f5a6d837435157e052d401cb3
parent88429f018bbb15749f31067d5e7bf33c21b15f92 (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-contrib-21ce4e481ee812aa17ba5a08b327d91fa241c4c5.tar.gz
documentation: Build example in QS and poky.ent variable added
I changed the example that builds an image so that it uses the default build directory. It seems like the natural thing to do. Also added a new poky.ent variable named OE_INIT_FILE. This variable is set to the name of the build environment script (From yocto-docs rev: f0db49e27e89aefb6d43a0b455c6ecc529399c27) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--documentation/poky.ent1
-rw-r--r--documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml14
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/poky.ent b/documentation/poky.ent
index 342865acfd..5aa4da8ba1 100644
--- a/documentation/poky.ent
+++ b/documentation/poky.ent
@@ -47,3 +47,4 @@
<!ENTITY YOCTO_ADTPATH_DIR "/opt/poky/&DISTRO;">
<!ENTITY YOCTO_POKY_TARBALL "&YOCTO_POKY;.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY OE_INIT_PATH "&YOCTO_POKY;/oe-init-build-env">
+<!ENTITY OE_INIT_FILE "oe-init-build-env">
diff --git a/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml b/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml
index b37a45f337..3fde5b7d08 100644
--- a/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml
+++ b/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml
@@ -387,7 +387,8 @@
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
$ wget &YOCTO_POKY_DL_URL;
$ tar xjf &YOCTO_POKY;.tar.bz2
- $ source &OE_INIT_PATH; &YOCTO_POKY;-build
+ $ cd &YOCTO_POKY;
+ $ source &OE_INIT_FILE;
</literallayout>
</para>
@@ -412,12 +413,15 @@
<listitem><para>The second command extracts the files from the tarball and places
them into a directory named <filename>&YOCTO_POKY;</filename> in the current
directory.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>The third command runs the Yocto Project environment setup script.
- Running this script defines OpenEmbedded build environment settings needed to
+ <listitem><para>The third and fourth commands change the working directory to the
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#source-directory'>source directory</ulink>
+ and run the Yocto Project environment setup script.
+ Running this script defines OpenEmbedded build environment settings needed to
complete the build.
The script also creates the
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#build-directory'>build directory</ulink>,
- which is <filename>&YOCTO_POKY;-build</filename> in this case.
+ which is <filename>build</filename> in this case and is located in the
+ source directory.
After the script runs, your current working directory is set
to the build directory.
Later, when the build completes, the build directory contains all the files
@@ -426,7 +430,7 @@
</itemizedlist>
<para>
Take some time to examine your <filename>local.conf</filename> file
- in your project's configuration directory.
+ in your project's configuration directory, which is found in the build directory.
The defaults in that file should work fine.
However, there are some variables of interest at which you might look.
</para>