From: Jacob Kroon Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:43:28 +0000 (+0200) Subject: bitbake: bitbake-user-manual: key-expansion: Don't refer to overrides X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4abf4125f0a098e0cb02700c0412be9a83c514c0;p=thirdparty%2Fopenembedded%2Fopenembedded-core-contrib.git bitbake: bitbake-user-manual: key-expansion: Don't refer to overrides Nowadays bitbake applies overrides dynamically, not at a single specific point in time during parsing. (Bitbake rev: 218431b0f7c97764cb2c0b79a3aadfe2007f490b) Signed-off-by: Jacob Kroon Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- diff --git a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml index 6b49d7fa8b7..421364c2cf9 100644 --- a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml +++ b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml @@ -799,17 +799,15 @@ Key Expansion - Key expansion happens when the BitBake datastore is finalized - just before BitBake expands overrides. + Key expansion happens when the BitBake datastore is finalized. To better understand this, consider the following example: A${B} = "X" B = "2" A2 = "Y" - In this case, after all the parsing is complete, and - before any overrides are handled, BitBake expands - ${B} into "2". + In this case, after all the parsing is complete, + BitBake expands ${B} into "2". This expansion causes A2, which was set to "Y" before the expansion, to become "X".