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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@streamunlimited.com>
Cc: YP docs mailing list <docs@lists.yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [docs] Description of BBPATH in BB user manual seems ... wrong
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:19:02 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cbb6d8df-10c-b845-3ffa-9e294ead99a0@crashcourse.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210315131042.lgjgjzdjtp2ofdey@qschulz>

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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.

rday

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-15 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
2021-03-16  9:01     ` Quentin Schulz
2021-03-16  9:58       ` Robert P. J. Day
2021-03-17  9:19   ` Robert P. J. Day

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