I updated and published the change to the 1.8 version. I took Joe's suggestion.
Thanks, Scott >-----Original Message----- >From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto- >boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Joe MacDonald >Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 5:44 AM >To: Robert P. J. Day >Cc: Yocto discussion list >Subject: Re: [yocto] kernel manual: confusing coverage of >FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend > >[[yocto] kernel manual: confusing coverage of FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend] >On 15.02.25 (Wed 03:54) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> >> minor quibble about kernel dev manual -- section 2.2.1, "creating >> the append file", uses the example of: >> >> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:" >> >> while section 2.2.3 uses: >> >> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:" >> >> both sections kind of implying that that's the way to do it, without >> making it clear that *either* way works as long as the variable >> prepend matches up with the directory name. >> >> both ways are correct, of course, but the wording is a bit >> confusing. > >It's probably worth changing the latter reference to match the former. >Both work but with any new recipes (at least in the layers I maintain) the >preference is to use the former for clarity as well as faster lookups. > >-J. > >> >> rday >> >> -- >> >> >=========================================================== >============= >> Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA >> http://crashcourse.ca >> >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday >> LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday >> >=========================================================== >=========== >> == >-- >-Joe MacDonald. >:wq -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
