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| author |   Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2014-05-22 22:30:45 +0300 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-05-30 16:32:15 +0100 |
| commit | 594833891de88c057e8c39eb648996bb757cbaed (patch) | |
| tree | 6f638b31422ba6b9fee654f1f08bd923a4d235a2 /documentation | |
| parent | 566b9bc5b22821806e6a1ba5513a0759e65caa5e (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-594833891de88c057e8c39eb648996bb757cbaed.tar.gz | |
ref-manual: Added PRIVATE_LIBS variable and supporting links.
(From yocto-docs rev: f4e8652581fe99a0d833242a8483ed637e55e3a5)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 34 |
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml index e17fc2c216..16203e6dbf 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml @@ -735,7 +735,8 @@ picked up as the provider for a common library. If that is the case, you should add the library's <filename>.so</filename> file name to - <filename>PRIVATE_LIBS</filename> in the recipe that provides + <link linkend='var-PRIVATE_LIBS'><filename>PRIVATE_LIBS</filename></link> + in the recipe that provides the private version of the library. </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index d7f6a8bfb1..cd235e633e 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -6133,7 +6133,39 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3" </glossdef> </glossentry> - <glossentry id='var-PROVIDES'><glossterm>PROVIDES</glossterm> + <glossentry id='var-PRIVATE_LIBS'><glossterm>PRIVATE_LIBS</glossterm> + <glossdef> + <para> + Specifies libraries installed within a recipe that + should be ignored by the OpenEmbedded build system's + shared library resolver. + This variable is typically used when software being + built by a recipe has its own private versions of a + library normally provided by another recipe. + In this case, you would not want the package containing + the private libraries to be set as a dependency on other + unrelated packages that should instead depend on the + package providing the standard version of the library. + </para> + + <para> + Libraries specified in this variable should be specified + by their file name. + For example, from the Firefox recipe in meta-browser: + <literallayout class='monospaced'> + PRIVATE_LIBS = "libmozjs.so \ + libxpcom.so \ + libnspr4.so \ + libxul.so \ + libmozalloc.so \ + libplc4.so \ + libplds4.so" + </literallayout> + </para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + + <glossentry id='var-PROVIDES'><glossterm>PROVIDES</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> A list of aliases that a recipe also provides. |