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| author | Brad Bishop <bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com> | 2019-09-13 13:48:36 +0300 |
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| committer | Brad Bishop <bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com> | 2019-09-13 13:48:37 +0300 |
| commit | acc069eae454e337d999fee6f0aee5afe191d6f4 (patch) | |
| tree | 60a62f3889e49c7462beabd649d821942fb6c74b /poky/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual | |
| parent | 6b0f7d8ed1bae971f1fcf01cc75ce0c6ac93b9b5 (diff) | |
| download | openbmc-acc069eae454e337d999fee6f0aee5afe191d6f4.tar.xz | |
poky: subtree update:3b87508a9a..745e38ff0f
Jacob Kroon (2):
bitbake: bitbake-user-manual: Correct description for _append/_prepend/_remove
bitbake: bitbake-user-manual: key-expansion: Don't refer to overrides
Nathan Rossi (2):
oeqa/selftest/context.py: For -t/-T use append argparse action
chrpath.bbclass: Add break_hardlinks kwarg to allow breaking hardlinks
Trevor Gamblin (1):
libevent: don't treat test stats line as pass/fail in ptest
Change-Id: I453a18f9177b070de9a2109a8b2b96694aa6e1c3
Signed-off-by: Brad Bishop <bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'poky/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | poky/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml | 15 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/poky/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml b/poky/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml index 88622421d..421364c2c 100644 --- a/poky/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml +++ b/poky/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml @@ -369,9 +369,8 @@ <para> These operators differ from the ":=", ".=", "=.", "+=", and "=+" - operators in that their effects are deferred - until after parsing completes rather than being immediately - applied. + operators in that their effects are applied at variable + expansion time rather than being immediately applied. Here are some examples: <literallayout class='monospaced'> B = "bval" @@ -435,7 +434,7 @@ <para> Like "_append" and "_prepend", "_remove" - is deferred until after parsing completes. + is applied at variable expansion time. </para> </section> @@ -800,17 +799,15 @@ <title>Key Expansion</title> <para> - Key expansion happens when the BitBake datastore is finalized - just before BitBake expands overrides. + Key expansion happens when the BitBake datastore is finalized. To better understand this, consider the following example: <literallayout class='monospaced'> A${B} = "X" B = "2" A2 = "Y" </literallayout> - In this case, after all the parsing is complete, and - before any overrides are handled, BitBake expands - <filename>${B}</filename> into "2". + In this case, after all the parsing is complete, + BitBake expands <filename>${B}</filename> into "2". This expansion causes <filename>A2</filename>, which was set to "Y" before the expansion, to become "X". </para> |