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authorDongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com>2010-09-09 16:40:55 +0800
committerRichard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>2010-09-10 12:18:00 +0100
commit2beaecb35133aa9006a8b3ce79b4dee202fc35b2 (patch)
treecd7d26a505fcd3b4cdd4b79f37d7a9e13402e29a /handbook/ref-variables.xml
parent276abb19ce524ba1d45d01530c5f44f51d6468b6 (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-2beaecb35133aa9006a8b3ce79b4dee202fc35b2.tar.gz
handbook: Fix some errors in Appendix F/G
CVS_TARBALL_STASH and SHELLRCCMD is not found in current poky. Fix some grammar issues. Signed-off-by: Dongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
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diff --git a/handbook/ref-variables.xml b/handbook/ref-variables.xml
index 8ac8f01e63..de51dff1aa 100644
--- a/handbook/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/handbook/ref-variables.xml
@@ -107,32 +107,23 @@
<glossentry id='var-COMPATIBLE_MACHINE'><glossterm>COMPATIBLE_MACHINE</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A regular expression which evalutates to match the machines the recipe
- works with. It stops recipes being run on machines they're incompatible with
- which is partciuarly useful with kernels. It also helps to to increase parsing
- speed as if its found the current machine is not compatible, further parsing
- of the recipe is skipped.</para>
+ works with. It stops recipes being run on machines they're incompatible with,
+ which is partciuarly useful with kernels. It also helps to increase parsing
+ speed that, further parsing of the recipe is skipped as if it found the current
+ machine is not compatible.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id='var-CONFIG_SITE'><glossterm>CONFIG_SITE</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
- Contains a list of files which containing autoconf test results relevant
+ A list of files which contains autoconf test results relevant
to the current build. This variable is used by the autotools utilities
when running configure.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id='var-CVS_TARBALL_STASH'><glossterm>CVS_TARBALL_STASH</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>Location to search for
- pre-generated tarballs when fetching from remote SCM
- repositories (CVS/SVN/GIT)</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
</glossdiv>
<glossdiv id='var-glossary-d'><title>D</title>
@@ -259,6 +250,12 @@
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id='var-EXTRA_OECMAKE'><glossterm>EXTRA_OECMAKE</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>Additional cmake options</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id='var-EXTRA_OECONF'><glossterm>EXTRA_OECONF</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Additional 'configure' script options</para>
@@ -427,13 +424,13 @@
<glossdef>
<para>Checksums of the license text in the recipe source code.
</para>
- <para>This variables tracks changes in license text of the source
- code files. If the license text is changed it triggers the build
- failure. Which gives developer an oppurtunity to review any
- license changes</para>
- <para> This is an optional variable now. And the plan is to make
+ <para>This variable tracks changes in license text of the source
+ code files. If the license text is changed, it will trigger the build
+ failure, which gives developer an opportunity to review any
+ license change</para>
+ <para> This is an optional variable now, and the plan is to make
it a required variable in the future </para>
- <para>See the "meta/package/zlib/zlib_${PV}.bb" file for an example</para>
+ <para>See "meta/package/zlib/zlib_${PV}.bb" file for an example</para>
<para>More information in <link
linkend='usingpoky-configuring-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM'>
@@ -594,7 +591,7 @@
<glossentry id='var-POKYLIBC'><glossterm>POKYLIBC</glossterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>Libc implementation selector - glibc or uclibc can be selected.</para>
+ <para>Libc implementation selector - glibc, eglibc, or uclibc can be selected.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
@@ -615,9 +612,9 @@
<glossentry id='var-RCONFLICTS'><glossterm>RCONFLICTS</glossterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>List of packages which which conflict with this
- one. Package will not be installed if they will not
- be removed first.</para>
+ <para>List of packages which conflict with this
+ one. Package will not be installed if they are not
+ removed first.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
@@ -645,7 +642,7 @@
<glossentry id='var-RRECOMMENDS'><glossterm>RRECOMMENDS</glossterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>List of packages which extend usability of
+ <para>List of packages which extend usability of the
package. Those packages will be automatically
installed but can be removed by user.</para>
</glossdef>
@@ -702,16 +699,7 @@
<glossdef>
<para>
A list of commands to run within the a shell, used by <glossterm><link
- linkend='var-TERMCMDRUN'>TERMCMDRUN</link></glossterm>. It defaults to
- <glossterm><link linkend='var-SHELLRCCMD'>SHELLRCCMD</link></glossterm>.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id='var-SHELLRCCMD'><glossterm>SHELLRCCMD</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- How to launch a shell, defaults to bash.
+ linkend='var-TERMCMDRUN'>TERMCMDRUN</link></glossterm>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>