From: Saul Wold <saul.wold@intel.com>
To: poky@yoctoproject.org, "Rifenbark,
Scott M" <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix a typo in usermanual on lazy default
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:38:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE6FC4B.7050400@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101119044025.GB31096@qhe2-db>
On 11/18/2010 08:40 PM, Qing He wrote:
> "??= ... is a lazy version of ??=", the second should be ?=
>
> Signed-off-by: Qing He<qing.he@intel.com>
>
Should all doc changes go through Scott R, and then into master that way?
Just checking on process.
Scott R: If you need help pulling changes let me know.
Sau!
> ---
> diff --git a/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml b/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml
> index 748ac31..2b7a0b5 100644
> --- a/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml
> +++ b/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml
> @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ share common metadata between many packages.</para></listitem>
> <title>Setting a default value (??=)</title>
> <para><screen><varname>A</varname> ??= "somevalue"</screen></para>
> <para><screen><varname>A</varname> ??= "someothervalue"</screen></para>
> -<para>If<varname>A</varname> is set before the above, it will retain that value. If<varname>A</varname> is unset prior to the above,<varname>A</varname> will be set to<literal>someothervalue</literal>. This is a lazy version of ??=, in that the assignment does not occur until the end of the parsing process, so that the last, rather than the first, ??= assignment to a given variable will be used.</para>
> +<para>If<varname>A</varname> is set before the above, it will retain that value. If<varname>A</varname> is unset prior to the above,<varname>A</varname> will be set to<literal>someothervalue</literal>. This is a lazy version of ?=, in that the assignment does not occur until the end of the parsing process, so that the last, rather than the first, ??= assignment to a given variable will be used.</para>
> </section>
> <section>
> <title>Immediate variable expansion (:=)</title>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-19 4:40 [PATCH] fix a typo in usermanual on lazy default Qing He
2010-11-19 22:38 ` Saul Wold [this message]
[not found] ` <DE8BA75F34A0404282AC5E15F691BC76910E@orsmsx504.amr.corp.intel.com>
2010-12-02 18:53 ` Saul Wold
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