I clarified about 5 instances of this problem in the reference manual. As usual, see http://www.yoctoprojects.org/docs/latest/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html for the latest.
Scott -----Original Message----- From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 9:29 AM To: Yocto discussion list Subject: [yocto] yocto docs: confusion between shell env vars and bitbake env vars since i'm reading this out of the yocto/poky reference manual, i might as well point it out here. there is occasional confusion when the docs refer to "environment variables", since it's not clear when that means *shell* env vars or *bitbake* env vars. for instance, in the ref manual, section B.1, "Parsing", you read: "The first thing BitBake does is look for the bitbake.conf file. The Yocto Project keeps this file in the Yocto Project file's meta/conf/ directory. BitBake finds it by examining the BBPATH environment variable and looking for the meta/conf/ directory." but there is no BBPATH shell environment variable. in fact, oe-init-build-env explicitly *unsets* that shell variable at the very end. however, you can check the *bitbake* environment with "bitbake -e" and there it is, and i think that not being clear about the difference has the potential to massively confuse readers. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
