From: "Quentin Schulz" <quentin.schulz@streamunlimited.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: YP docs mailing list <docs@lists.yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [docs] Description of BBPATH in BB user manual seems ... wrong
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 10:01:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210316090127.fcbule36mo4f7npd@qschulz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cbb6d8df-10c-b845-3ffa-9e294ead99a0@crashcourse.ca>
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 04:19:02PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, Quentin Schulz wrote:
>
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 09:05:53AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > > Section 3.4.1 of BB manual:
> > >
> > > https://docs.yoctoproject.org/bitbake/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.html#locating-include-and-class-files
> > >
> > > "BitBake uses the BBPATH variable to locate needed include and class
> > > files. Additionally, BitBake searches the current directory for
> > > include and require directives.
> > >
> > > ... snip ..
> > >
> > > "In order for include and class files to be found by BitBake, they
> > > need to be located in a “classes” subdirectory that can be found in
> > > BBPATH."
> > >
> > > first, is BBPATH not used for finding conf files as well? and the
> >
> > Yes it is.
> >
> > > wording of that second paragraph suggests that include files need to
> > > be in a classes subdirectory to be found, which i'm pretty sure isn't
> > > true.
> > >
> >
> > I think what was meant by "include" files are conf files.... which
> > (probably) technically are include files to Yocto PoV.
> >
> > Not entirely sure but I think Yocto includes all appropriate conf files
> > to create the "base" "environment" of all recipes.
> >
> > basically, stuff on top of bitbake.conf and what is the environment
> > being reset to between tasks/recipes.
> >
> > Those are guesses though.
>
> well, i think that wording in the BB user manual is at least a
> little misleading, but if others think it's sufficiently clear, i'll
> shut up about it.
>
I agree with you. Don't know how to reword though.
Something like what's in YP docs for example:
https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/variables.html#term-BBPATH
Where include files are replaced by configuration files. I guess we
could explicit BBPATH represents the parent directory of classes/ and
conf/ directories where bbclasses and configuration files such as
machine, distro, layer configuration files are.
My 2¢ on this :)
Quentin
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2021-03-15 13:05 Description of BBPATH in BB user manual seems ... wrong Robert P. J. Day
2021-03-15 13:10 ` [docs] " Quentin Schulz
2021-03-15 20:19 ` Robert P. J. Day
2021-03-16 9:01 ` Quentin Schulz [this message]
2021-03-16 9:58 ` Robert P. J. Day
2021-03-17 9:19 ` Robert P. J. Day
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