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authorRichard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>2010-10-15 15:06:33 +0100
committerRichard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>2010-10-15 15:07:06 +0100
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documentation/poky-ref-manual: Various tweaks to the text
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
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+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/development.xml
@@ -7,33 +7,37 @@
<section id="platdev-appdev">
<title>Software development</title>
<para>
- Poky supports several methods of software development. These different
- forms of development are explained below and can be switched
- between as needed.
+ Poky supports several methods of software development. You can use the method that is
+ best for you. This chapter describes each development method.
</para>
<section id="platdev-appdev-external-sdk">
- <title>Developing externally using the Poky SDK</title>
-
+ <title>External Development Using the Poky SDK</title>
<para>
The meta-toolchain and meta-toolchain-sdk targets (<link linkend='ref-images'>see
- the images section</link>) build tarballs which contain toolchains and
- libraries suitable for application development outside Poky. These unpack into the
+ the images section</link>) build tarballs that contain toolchains and
+ libraries suitable for application development outside of Poky. These tarballs
+ unpack into the
<filename class="directory">/opt/poky</filename> directory and contain
- a setup script, e.g.
- <filename>/opt/poky/environment-setup-i586-poky-linux</filename> which
- can be sourced to initialise a suitable environment. After sourcing this, the
+ a setup script (e.g.
+ <filename>/opt/poky/environment-setup-i586-poky-linux</filename>, which
+ you can source to initialize a suitable environment. Sourcing these adds the
compiler, QEMU scripts, QEMU binary, a special version of pkgconfig and other
- useful utilities are added to the PATH. Variables to assist pkgconfig and
+ useful utilities to the PATH variable. Variables to assist pkgconfig and
autotools are also set so that, for example, configure can find pre-generated test
- results for tests which need target hardware to run.
+ results for tests that need target hardware on which to run.
</para>
<para>
- Using the toolchain with autotool enabled packages is straightforward, just pass the
- appropriate host option to configure e.g. "./configure --host=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi".
- For other projects it is usually a case of ensuring the cross tools are used e.g.
- CC=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc and LD=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld.
+ Using the toolchain with autotool-enabled packages is straightforward - just pass the
+ appropriate host option to configure as in the following example:
+ <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+ $ ./configure --host=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi
+ </literallayout>
+ For other projects it is usually a case of ensuring the cross tools are used:
+ <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+ CC=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc and LD=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld
+ </literallayout>
</para>
</section>
@@ -215,7 +219,6 @@
</section>
</section>
-
<section id="platdev-appdev-qemu">
<title>Developing externally in QEMU</title>
<para>
@@ -249,9 +252,9 @@
also contain an NFS server exporting the guest's root filesystem
allowing that to be made available to the host.
</para>
- </section>
+ </section>
- <section id="platdev-appdev-insitu">
+ <section id="platdev-appdev-insitu">
<title>Developing in Poky directly</title>
<para>
Working directly in Poky is a fast and effective development technique.
@@ -296,10 +299,9 @@ $ bitbake matchbox-desktop
linkend="usingpoky-components-bitbake">2.1.1</link> and <link
linkend="usingpoky-debugging-taskrunning">2.4.2</link>.
</para>
+ </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="platdev-appdev-devshell">
+ <section id="platdev-appdev-devshell">
<title>Developing with 'devshell'</title>
<para>
@@ -346,7 +348,6 @@ $ bitbake matchbox-desktop -c devshell
environmental variables such as CC to assist applications, such as make,
find the correct tools.
</para>
-
</section>
<section id="platdev-appdev-srcrev">
@@ -369,8 +370,7 @@ $ bitbake matchbox-desktop -c devshell
revision updating.
</para>
</section>
-
- </section>
+</section>
<section id="platdev-gdb-remotedebug">
<title>Debugging with GDB Remotely</title>