On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Wednesday 17 April 2013 10:24:42 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > a while back, i dug into how FILESEXTRAPATHS worked with respect to > > .bbappend files and i wrote it up, just updated it a bit here: > > > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/FILESEXTRAPATHS_and_bbappend_files > > > > do i have it about right? it seemed that the underlying details > > weren't really explained well in any of the current yocto docs, and i > > wanted something i could point students at. > > It looks OK to me although if you're going to point students at it I > might suggest moving the "don't look here!" stuff elsewhere ;)
yes, that's going to be updated with more examples ripped from the headlines. :-) > Also as I believe I mentioned before, FILESEXTRAPATHS adds not just > one directory but an "entire list of directories" is it allows > bbappend file path behaviour to match that of the recipe itself. quite so. the reason i did that writeup is that, as i mentioned, i don't think the behaviour of FILESEXTRAPATHS is well explained. for example, the entry in the reference manual variable glossary here: http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.2/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html#var-FILESEXTRAPATHS doesn't even *hint* at the underlying behaviour, which i think is important to understand. 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