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| author |   Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com> | 2016-01-27 18:23:28 +0100 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-01-29 17:02:10 +0000 |
| commit | 023a5b69df05adce0ed192b393b45eb879c096a0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0dbe54cd76e84dac0a50ff32a28976937527e234 /doc | |
| parent | 2c778ad50aceaffb855baf5f4aa0fed98c880870 (diff) | |
| download | bitbake-contrib-023a5b69df05adce0ed192b393b45eb879c096a0.tar.gz | |
bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables: Update the help for BBMASK
Update the help for BBMASK to reflect that it is now allowed to
contain multiple regular expressions. Also changed the examples for
BBMASK to be a bit more diverse.
Signed-off-by: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml | 20 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml index e5aeffcff..ae7e4cee8 100644 --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml @@ -1142,14 +1142,14 @@ to "hide" these <filename>.bb</filename> and <filename>.bbappend</filename> files. BitBake ignores any recipe or recipe append files that - match the expression. + match any of the expressions. It is as if BitBake does not see them at all. Consequently, matching files are not parsed or otherwise used by BitBake.</para> <para> - The value you provide is passed to Python's regular + The values you provide are passed to Python's regular expression compiler. - The expression is compared against the full paths to + The expressions are compared against the full paths to the files. For complete syntax information, see Python's documentation at @@ -1165,18 +1165,16 @@ BBMASK = "meta-ti/recipes-misc/" </literallayout> If you want to mask out multiple directories or recipes, - use the vertical bar to separate the regular expression - fragments. + you can specify multiple regular expression fragments. This next example masks out multiple directories and individual recipes: <literallayout class='monospaced'> - BBMASK = "meta-ti/recipes-misc/|meta-ti/recipes-ti/packagegroup/" - BBMASK .= "|.*meta-oe/recipes-support/" - BBMASK .= "|.*openldap" - BBMASK .= "|.*opencv" - BBMASK .= "|.*lzma" + BBMASK += "/meta-ti/recipes-misc/ meta-ti/recipes-ti/packagegroup/" + BBMASK += "/meta-oe/recipes-support/" + BBMASK += "/meta-foo/.*/openldap" + BBMASK += "opencv.*\.bbappend" + BBMASK += "lzma" </literallayout> - Notice how the vertical bar is used to append the fragments. <note> When specifying a directory name, use the trailing slash character to ensure you match just that directory |