[[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.
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> rday
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