[oe] should indent recipe use "${prefix}" instead of "/usr"?
Ross Burton
ross at burtonini.com
Tue Mar 17 21:32:10 UTC 2020
On 17/03/2020 17:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> just noticed that ./meta-oe/recipes-extended/indent/indent_2.2.12.bb
> on master branch contains the line:
>
> FILES_${PN}-doc += "/usr/doc/indent/indent.html"
>
> should that not properly read:
>
> FILES_${PN}-doc += "${prefix}/doc/indent/indent.html"
>
> or am i misreading something?
Recipes should never use /usr directly unless they're relocating
something from e.g. ${D}/usr/lib to ${D}${libdir}.
The recipe should be telling the Makefiles to install into ${docdir}
(typically, /usr/share/doc).
Ross
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