Re: Documentation: Default FILESDIR

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 02/29/2012 04:27 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> When a new user goes to write a recipe and add a patch or other file,
>> they need to understand FILESDIR and where to put these additional
>> files. I scanned the reference manual and the dev manual and came up
>> mostly empty handed. The one glipse of it is in section 5.1.4 of the
>> Reference Manual:
>>
>> "
>> It is useful when making changes directly to the work directory files to
>> do so using the Quilt tool as detailed in the Modifying Package Source
>> Code with Quilt section. Using Quilt, you can copy patches into the
>> recipe directory and use the patches directly through use of the SRC_URI
>> variable.
>> "
>>
>> Unfortunately, this doesn't say where the recipe directory is and what
>> it should be named.
>>
>> Is this documented somewhere that I missed? If not, Scott can you add
>> this task to your list of doc gaps?
> 
> FILESDIR hasn't actually been used (or, shouldn't have been) for
> years. FILESPATH replaced it.

Sorry, I should have said FILESPATH - that's what I get for not looking
it up. The situation is unchanged though.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel