[PATCH 11/34] ref-manual: add DEV_PKG_DEPENDENCY

Paul Eggleton
2022-10-10T09:24:44Z

New variable in 4.1.

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com>
---
documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
index 7707f5a..ab39fa8 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
@@ -1812,6 +1812,11 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
:term:`DESCRIPTION` takes the value of the :term:`SUMMARY`
variable.

+ :term:`DEV_PKG_DEPENDENCY`
+ Provides an easy way for recipes to disable or adjust the runtime
+ dependency (:term:`RDEPENDS`) of the ``${PN}-dev`` package on the main
+ (``${PN}``) package, particularly where the main package may be empty.
+
:term:`DISABLE_STATIC`
Used in order to disable static linking by default (in order to save
space, since static libraries are often unused in embedded systems.)
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1.8.3.1