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author | Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com> | 2016-04-30 12:52:49 -0700 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-05-19 09:05:21 +0100 |
commit | 32ee30a46d5e27ffcb0f18d85a0768bd22adca94 (patch) | |
tree | 711b1253359d62d29586ae8b362eac4e7ef7f859 /bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml | |
parent | 90bc9b4f3342c41e4f9c20a6f0f8e69b8ed4bce3 (diff) | |
download | openembedded-core-contrib-32ee30a46d5e27ffcb0f18d85a0768bd22adca94.tar.gz |
bitbake: Provide LAYERDIR_RE for layer.conf
This variable is a regex-escaped version of LAYERDIR, for safer use in
BBFILE_PATTERN, so as to avoid issues with regex special characters in the
layer path.
[YOCTO #8402]
(Bitbake rev: 72900522778b6ff08b135bf8bb97dff3f1a20bd9)
Signed-off-by: Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml')
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diff --git a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml index ae7e4cee8c..4d06ff950c 100644 --- a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml +++ b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml @@ -1636,6 +1636,17 @@ </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id='var-LAYERDIR_RE'><glossterm>LAYERDIR_RE</glossterm> + <glossdef> + <para>When used inside the <filename>layer.conf</filename> configuration + file, this variable provides the path of the current layer, + escaped for use in a regular expression + (<link linkend='var-BBFILE_PATTERN'><filename>BBFILE_PATTERN</filename></link>). + This variable is not available outside of <filename>layer.conf</filename> + and references are expanded immediately when parsing of the file completes.</para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id='var-LAYERVERSION'><glossterm>LAYERVERSION</glossterm> <glossdef> <para>Optionally specifies the version of a layer as a single number. |