From: Saul Wold <saul.wold@intel.com>
To: "Rifenbark, Scott M" <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Cc: "poky@yoctoproject.org" <poky@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix a typo in usermanual on lazy default
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:53:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF7EB18.1000303@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DE8BA75F34A0404282AC5E15F691BC76910E@orsmsx504.amr.corp.intel.com>
On 11/22/2010 07:22 AM, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
> Where is this documentation? (/Bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml)
>
Scott, Qing
This would be a change that needs to be made to the upstream bitbake manual.
You could resend this patch to the bitbake-dev@lists.berlios.de
Sau!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wold, Saul
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 2:38 PM
> To: poky@yoctoproject.org; Rifenbark, Scott M
> Subject: Re: [poky] [PATCH] fix a typo in usermanual on lazy default
>
> 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>
>> _______________________________________________
>> poky mailing list
>> poky@yoctoproject.org
>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/poky
>>
>
>
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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
[not found] ` <DE8BA75F34A0404282AC5E15F691BC76910E@orsmsx504.amr.corp.intel.com>
2010-12-02 18:53 ` Saul Wold [this message]
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