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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2013-12-05 15:52:53 -0600
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2013-12-11 14:19:27 +0000
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ref-manual: Edits to externalsrc class.
(From yocto-docs rev: 910cd04897a3d9dc140b71e73c1d48ce262b274e) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml18
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
index eaab172..be68fce 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
@@ -2850,8 +2850,8 @@
<title><filename>externalsrc.bbclass</filename></title>
<para>
- You can use this class to build software from source code that is
- external to the OpenEmbedded build system.
+ The <filename>externalsrc</filename> class supports building software
+ from source code that is external to the OpenEmbedded build system.
Building software from an external source tree means that the build
system's normal fetch, unpack, and patch process is not used.
</para>
@@ -2861,7 +2861,7 @@
<link linkend='var-S'><filename>S</filename></link> and
<link linkend='var-B'><filename>B</filename></link> variables to
locate unpacked recipe source code and to build it, respectively.
- When your recipe inherits <filename>externalsrc.bbclass</filename>,
+ When your recipe inherits the <filename>externalsrc</filename> class,
you use the
<link linkend='var-EXTERNALSRC'><filename>EXTERNALSRC</filename></link>
and
@@ -2881,19 +2881,19 @@
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
${WORKDIR}/${BPN}/{PV}/
</literallayout>
- See the glossary entries for the
+ See these variables for more information:
<link linkend='var-WORKDIR'><filename>WORKDIR</filename></link>,
- <link linkend='var-BPN'><filename>BPN</filename></link>,
+ <link linkend='var-BPN'><filename>BPN</filename></link>, and
<link linkend='var-PV'><filename>PV</filename></link>,
</para>
<para>
- For more information on
- <filename>externalsrc.bbclass</filename>, see the comments in
+ For more information on the
+ <filename>externalsrc</filename> class, see the comments in
<filename>meta/classes/externalsrc.bbclass</filename> in the
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#source-directory'>Source Directory</ulink>.
- For information on how to use <filename>externalsrc.bbclass</filename>,
- see the
+ For information on how to use the <filename>externalsrc</filename>
+ class, see the
"<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#building-software-from-an-external-source'>Building Software from an External Source</ulink>"
section in the Yocto Project Development Manual.
</para>
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