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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2013-05-29 14:10:49 +0300
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2013-05-31 08:19:21 +0100
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parent4f41a86018834efa56bf4a44da4efa6686bfd220 (diff)
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ref-manual: Added new THISDIR variable and fixed some minor issues.
1. Added a new glossary entry for the THISDIR variable. 2. Inserted a link in the note of the FILESEXTRAPATHS variable to the new THISDIR glossary entry. (From yocto-docs rev: a4e704ff165959fab9c1e6f7d28906e8f15c6d27) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index 43b387c..1477201 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -1180,7 +1180,8 @@ Core layer for images cannot be removed
be sure to use the immediate expansion
(<filename>:=</filename>) operator.
Immediate expansion makes sure that BitBake evaluates
- <filename>THISDIR</filename> at the time the directive
+ <link linkend='var-THISDIR'><filename>THISDIR</filename></link>
+ at the time the directive
is encountered rather than at some later time when
expansion might result in a directory that does not
contain the files you need.</para>
@@ -3849,6 +3850,16 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3"
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id='var-THISDIR'><glossterm>THISDIR</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ The directory in which the file BitBake is currently
+ parsing is located.
+ Do not manually set this variable.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id='var-TMPDIR'><glossterm>TMPDIR</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
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