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| author |   Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> | 2016-07-11 14:24:22 -0700 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-07-21 07:47:35 +0100 |
| commit | 231deeb2b0b3847cba971ca30c16e29357100ae6 (patch) | |
| tree | 803637571dfc55305218b978e4561d3990203243 /doc | |
| parent | 886afd6d876c9ae04cf681931db8f1774dc53096 (diff) | |
| download | bitbake-contrib-231deeb2b0b3847cba971ca30c16e29357100ae6.tar.gz | |
bitbake-user-manual: Updated dependency section for tasks
Fixes [YOCTO #9861]
I updated the section on dependencies to give a couple of examples
for task dependencies within a single recipe and dependencies for
tasks between two individual recipes.
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml | 35 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml index 26fe58f84..646f6744e 100644 --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml @@ -1624,15 +1624,32 @@ <title>Dependencies</title> <para> - To allow for efficient operation given multiple processes - executing in parallel, BitBake handles dependencies at - the task level. - BitBake supports a robust method to handle these dependencies. - </para> - - <para> - This section describes several types of dependency mechanisms. - </para> + To allow for efficient parallel processing, BitBake handles + dependencies at the task level. + Dependencies can exist both between tasks within a single recipe + and between tasks in different recipes. + Following are examples of each: + <itemizedlist> + <listitem><para>For tasks within a single recipe, a + recipe's <filename>do_configure</filename> + task might need to complete before its + <filename>do_compile</filename> task can run. + </para></listitem> + <listitem><para>For tasks in different recipes, one + recipe's <filename>do_configure</filename> + task might require another recipe's + <filename>do_populate_sysroot</filename> + task to finish first such that the libraries and headers + provided by the other recipe are available. + </para></listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </para> + + <para> + This section describes several ways to declare dependencies. + Remember, even though dependencies are declared in different ways, they + are all simply dependencies between tasks. + </para> <section id='dependencies-internal-to-the-bb-file'> <title>Dependencies Internal to the <filename>.bb</filename> File</title> |