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From: Talel BELHAJ SALEM <bhstalel@gmail.com>
To: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org
Cc: Talel BELHAJ SALEM <bhstalel@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] dev-manual/building.rst: add note about externalsrc variables absolute paths
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:20:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250921132033.31644-3-bhstalel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250921132033.31644-1-bhstalel@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Talel BELHAJ SALEM <bhstalel@gmail.com>
---
 documentation/dev-manual/building.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/building.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/building.rst
index 8d00d908e..de37704ad 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/building.rst
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/building.rst
@@ -764,6 +764,11 @@ to point to that directory::
 
    EXTERNALSRC_BUILD:pn-myrecipe = "path-to-your-source-tree"
 
+.. note::
+
+   The values of :term:`EXTERNALSRC` and :term:`EXTERNALSRC_BUILD`
+   must be absolute paths.
+
 Replicating a Build Offline
 ===========================
 
-- 
2.51.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-09-21 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-21 13:20 [PATCH 0/2] Document some checks in externalsrc that could fail the build Talel BELHAJ SALEM
2025-09-21 13:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] dev-manual/building.rst: add note about globally inheriting externalsrc class Talel BELHAJ SALEM
2025-09-22 14:18   ` [docs] " Antonin Godard
2025-09-22 18:08     ` Talel BELHADJ SALEM
2025-09-23 16:08       ` Antonin Godard
2025-09-21 13:20 ` Talel BELHAJ SALEM [this message]
2025-10-06  8:07   ` [PATCH 2/2] dev-manual/building.rst: add note about externalsrc variables absolute paths Antonin Godard

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