I would ask on the OpenEmbedded mailing list for the correct answer, the
other answers currently given are wrong. The bitbake manual will be the
best place to find the answer on your own, however it is significantly
dated at the moment.
====+GUESS+====
I imagine d is an object which represents a recipe. As it is a variable
though, it could really be anything and possibly different depending on
the context.
====+GUESS+====
Cheers,
Jack.
On 11/11/13 05:18, Neabex wrote:
> Don:
> I'm not talking about an argument to bitbake, but a variable that seems
> to exist in the context of all .bb files execution.
>
> Victor:
> It's not documented in that manual either but I think it might be a
> shortcut to bb.data
> I think it's some 'datasmart' variable that aggregates passed in
> arguments from various other bitbake recipes.
>
> example :
>
> d.getVar('PN', True)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sunday, November 10, 2013 9:10:20 PM UTC-8, Victor wrote:
>
> http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/usermanual.html
> <http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/usermanual.html>
>
> The above documentation should clear your query
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Neabex <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> This is proving incredibly hard to google for since searching
> for 'd' aliases to so many things. Do you guys know where I can
> find documentation about this variable?
>
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