RE: [docs] [PATCHv3] ref-manual: Add documentation of PACKAGE_DEBUG_FILE_SUFFIX

[Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
> Sent: den 10 januari 2022 15:39
> To: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>; docs@lists.yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [docs] [PATCHv3] ref-manual: Add documentation of PACKAGE_DEBUG_FILE_SUFFIX
> 
> On 1/7/22 6:04 PM, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
> > ---
> >
> > PATCHv2: Removed the reference to split_and_strip_files().
> > PATCHv3: Changed "dbg package" to "``-dbg`` package".
> >
> >  documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
> > index e81a12030a..aaba23dbdf 100644
> > --- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
> > +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
> > @@ -5085,6 +5085,14 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
> >        result of the package manager in use, see the
> >        ":ref:`package.bbclass <ref-classes-package>`" section.
> >
> > +   :term:`PACKAGE_DEBUG_FILE_SUFFIX`
> > +      This suffix is added to the names of all files with debug symbols that go
> > +      into the ``-dbg`` package. It can be used to make the debug files produced
> > +      by one recipe unique to avoid them conflicting with identically named
> > +      debug files produced by another recipe. This may be needed since while the
> > +      target files may be split in multiple packages, the debug files for one
> > +      recipe are all in one package.
> > +
> >     :term:`PACKAGE_DEBUG_SPLIT_STYLE`
> >        Determines how to split up and package debug and source information
> >        when creating debugging packages to be used with the GNU Project
> 
> Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
> ... and merged into "master-next".
> 
> Thanks for the patch!
> Michael.

Just be aware that it still hasn't made it into meta...

//Peter