Re: Documentation

[Christophe Aeschlimann <c.aeschlimann@acn-group.ch>]

Hi,

On 02.12.2010 21:52, Robert Foerster wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:37 PM, David Lambert <dave@lambsys.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for all the suggestions. While on the subject, does a dictionary 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_versioning
> Discussed in the manual are many of the items which are initially confusing:
> 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-glossary-a

> 
> Also useful is to read the bitbake manual, which defines the basic metadata
> syntax handled by bitbake. http://bitbake.berlios.de/manual/
> 
> Hope that helps.
> Bob
> 

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