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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2012-10-01 06:46:31 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2012-10-02 17:41:28 +0100
commit08996b37f41619d5f8f82968c2c16e103582b444 (patch)
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parentc63ff824222e5cc6ae69c5eaee034e7f8329bcd7 (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-contrib-08996b37f41619d5f8f82968c2c16e103582b444.tar.gz
documentation: dev-manual - minor edits and links added to glossary.
(From yocto-docs rev: a5d66dd66458eab2ec4ca54f73ae0a46d44f430c) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 60b076d9a8..09afc09a5b 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@
variable.
BitBake passes these options into the <filename>make</filename> GNU invocation.
Note that a <filename>do_install</filename> task is still required.
- Otherwise BitBake runs an empty <filename>do_install</filename> task by default.
+ Otherwise, BitBake runs an empty <filename>do_install</filename> task by default.
</para>
<para>
@@ -908,7 +908,9 @@
</para>
<para>
- The <filename>PACKAGES</filename> and <filename>FILES_*</filename> variables in the
+ The <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PACKAGES'><filename>PACKAGES</filename></ulink>
+ and <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-FILES'><filename>FILES_*</filename></ulink>
+ variables in the
<filename>meta/conf/bitbake.conf</filename> configuration file define how files installed
by the <filename>do_install</filename> task are packaged.
By default, the <filename>PACKAGES</filename> variable contains
@@ -1200,7 +1202,9 @@
Many standard recipes are already extended and support multiple libraries.
You can check in the <filename>meta/conf/multilib.conf</filename>
configuration file in the source directory to see how this is
- done using the <filename>BBCLASSEXTEND</filename> variable.
+ done using the
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-BBCLASSEXTEND'><filename>BBCLASSEXTEND</filename></ulink>
+ variable.
Eventually, all recipes will be covered and this list will be unneeded.
</para>
@@ -1209,10 +1213,13 @@
extend the package name from <filename>${PN}</filename> to
<filename>${MLPREFIX}${PN}</filename>, where <filename>MLPREFIX</filename>
is the particular multilib (e.g. "lib32-" or "lib64-").
- Standard variables such as <filename>DEPENDS</filename>,
- <filename>RDEPENDS</filename>, <filename>RPROVIDES</filename>,
- <filename>RRECOMMENDS</filename>, <filename>PACKAGES</filename>, and
- <filename>PACKAGES_DYNAMIC</filename> are automatically extended by the system.
+ Standard variables such as
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-DEPENDS'><filename>DEPENDS</filename></ulink>,
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-RDEPENDS'><filename>RDEPENDS</filename></ulink>,
+ <filename>RPROVIDES</filename>,
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-RRECOMMENDS'><filename>RRECOMMENDS</filename></ulink>,
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PACKAGES'><filename>PACKAGES</filename></ulink>,
+ and <filename>PACKAGES_DYNAMIC</filename> are automatically extended by the system.
If you are extending any manual code in the recipe, you can use the
<filename>${MLPREFIX}</filename> variable to ensure those names are extended
correctly.