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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:14:22 +0200
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From: "Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>, "YP docs mailing list"
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Subject: Re: [docs] should the dev manual "libraries" sections explain
 "oe_libinstall"?
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On Thu Jun 11, 2026 at 1:26 PM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>   while the "Working with Pre-Built Libraries" section:
>
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev-manual/prebuilt-libraries.html
>
> explains the "oe_soinstall" utility, i see nothing anywhere in the
> docs that explains the similar "oe_libinstall" utility, for which
> there are a few examples scattered around, such as mtd-utils:
>
> https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-devtools=
/mtd/mtd-utils_2.3.1.bb
>
>   does this deserve a mention?

Yes please

Antonin