From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.dns-net.ch ([195.160.190.3] helo=111.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1POQCi-0001Ut-Ad for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:37:17 +0100 Received: from [172.16.145.92] (unknown [212.98.42.40]) by 111.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 0B8D62F071 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 08:35:53 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4CF89DD9.4030904@acn-group.ch> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:35:53 +0100 From: Christophe Aeschlimann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <4CF68D24.80900@lambsys.com> <20101201180621.GB20482@excalibur.local> <4CF69653.5000504@lambsys.com> <20101201185406.GC20482@excalibur.local> <4CF80383.6010401@lambsys.com> In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 195.160.190.3 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: c.aeschlimann@acn-group.ch X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: Documentation X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:37:17 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On 02.12.2010 21:52, Robert Foerster wrote: > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:37 PM, David Lambert wrote: >=20 >> Thanks for all the suggestions. While on the subject, does a dictionar= y of >> keywords with their meanings exist anywhere? Newbies like me may find = it >> very useful when browsing recipes. Some terms are intuitively obvious,= such >> as DEV_BASE, but others such as PR, INHERIT, PV, leave me with some >> ambiguity. >> >> > Some info can be found in the manual: > http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/usermanual.html#recipes_version= ing > Discussed in the manual are many of the items which are initially confu= sing: > P, PN, PV, PR, PF, S, D, WORDIR, etc The poky handbook also gives a few useful definitions: http://www.pokylinux.org/releases/green-3.3/doc/poky-handbook.html#var-gl= ossary-a >=20 > Also useful is to read the bitbake manual, which defines the basic meta= data > syntax handled by bitbake. http://bitbake.berlios.de/manual/ >=20 > Hope that helps. > Bob >=20 [...] --=20 Christophe Aeschlimann Embedded Software Engineer Advanced Communications Networks S.A. Rue du Puits-Godet 8a 2000 Neuch=E2tel, Switzerland T=E9l. +41 32 724 74 31 c.aeschlimann@acn-group.ch