From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpanel8.indieserve.net (cpanel8.indieserve.net [199.212.143.3]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web11.528.1615839547901448835 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:19:08 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: crashcourse.ca, ip: 199.212.143.3, mailfrom: rpjday@crashcourse.ca) Received: from cpef81d0f814063-cmf81d0f814060.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([174.114.57.56]:33588 helo=fedora) by cpanel8.indieserve.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1lLtg9-00Bt1n-Lo; Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:19:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:19:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" To: Quentin Schulz cc: YP docs mailing list Subject: Re: [docs] Description of BBPATH in BB user manual seems ... wrong In-Reply-To: <20210315131042.lgjgjzdjtp2ofdey@qschulz> Message-ID: References: <20210315131042.lgjgjzdjtp2ofdey@qschulz> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel8.indieserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.yoctoproject.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cpanel8.indieserve.net: authenticated_id: rpjday+crashcourse.ca/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: cpanel8.indieserve.net: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323328-149249070-1615839545=:13696" --8323328-149249070-1615839545=:13696 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT 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 --8323328-149249070-1615839545=:13696--