[OE-core] wanting to clarify HOSTTOOLS and HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 05:56 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >   again, trying to catch up with new developments, and i want to
> > > make sure i understand these variables. as i read it (and i
> > > could be off-base), HOSTTOOLS represents a list of tools that
> > > *must* be available one way or the other, and any tools listed
> > > there are allowed to be symlinked from the tools available in
> > > PATH, is that correct?
> > >
> > >   OTOH, HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL represents whitelisted tools that
> > > will be symlinked if they're there, but their absence is not
> > > fatal.
>
> Correct. Perhaps you could send a patch to add these to the manual? :)

  it's what i live for. :-P

rday

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