[bitbake-devel] mistake in chapter 2.1

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 1:14 AM Slaev, Ivan <Ivan.Slaev at harman.com> wrote:
>
> Dear bitbake-devel (community) :),
>
> While I was reading the 2.1 chapter of bitbake manual, I thing I found a mistake in:
>
> The layer.conf files are used to construct key variables such as BBPATH and BBFILES. BBPATH is used to search for configuration and class files under the conf and classes directories, respectively. BBFILES is used to locate both recipe and recipe append files (.bb and .bbappend). If there is no bblayers.conf file, it is assumed the user has set the BBPATH and BBFILES directly in the environment.
>
> In my opinion the last sentence should be: If there is no layer.conf file, it is assumed the user has set the BBPATH and BBFILES directly in the environment.
>
> Please check my statement as I could be wrong about it.
>

layer.conf file is used to define many variables along with BBPATH and
BBFLIES which are interesting in context for bblayers.conf file, and
its rightly mentioned in last sentence as well but I see that there is
a bit of disconnect here probably  where reader can get confused
between layer.conf and bblayer.conf, it could be
improved, maybe adding a sentence about what bblayers.conf does before
the last sentence above to put some context could be better.

> Kind regards!
>
> Ivan Slaev
>
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