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authorScott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>2016-10-05 11:05:47 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2016-10-11 08:51:22 +0100
commitcda7141ad131132024105922ddedbb0145b90e35 (patch)
tree667e1643c46caa4b627959b7cc048672c676e456 /documentation
parent6be52ddd9a1d1dc2600f298b31b5ccb1e98bd035 (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-contrib-cda7141ad131132024105922ddedbb0145b90e35.tar.gz
ref-manual: Review edits to do_populate_sysroot and SYSROOT_DIRS_NATIVE
Fixes [YOCTO #10377] Some minor wordsmithing. Also added a new note to the SYSROOT_DIRS_NATIVE variable. (From yocto-docs rev: 459666b01b8d6d8212a59c877ea6c324511a5883) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
-rw-r--r--documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml8
-rw-r--r--documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml7
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml
index 66c219372a..e9859c1fa9 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml
@@ -463,10 +463,10 @@
Stages (copies) a subset of the files installed by the
<link linkend='ref-tasks-install'><filename>do_install</filename></link>
task into the appropriate sysroot.
- For information on how to make these files available to other
- recipes, see the
- <link linkend='var-STAGING_DIR_HOST'><filename>STAGING_DIR_HOST</filename></link>
- variable.
+ For information on how to access these files from other recipes,
+ see the
+ <link linkend='var-STAGING_DIR_HOST'><filename>STAGING_DIR*</filename></link>
+ variables.
Directories that would typically not be needed by other recipes at
build time (e.g. <filename>/etc</filename>) are not copied by
default.
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index 38d8605bb9..8824943acb 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -13210,6 +13210,13 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3"
${localstatedir} \
"
</literallayout>
+ <note>
+ Programs built by <filename>-native</filename> recipes
+ run directly from the sysroot
+ (<filename>STAGING_DIR_NATIVE</filename>), which is
+ why additional directories containing program
+ executables and supporting files need to be staged.
+ </note>
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>