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| author |   Gerald Britton <gbritton@doomcom.org> | 2004-06-24 01:40:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerald Britton <gbritton@doomcom.org> | 2004-06-24 01:40:54 +0000 |
| commit | 5df1997cce171d566ceef2c1dcbad31aaa6b2b70 (patch) | |
| tree | 2bac3c6b6de0f8890def2a570e776ae32aad0851 /conf | |
| parent | 06a6ae49baf813a1361ab9935e3b38f9c99217e1 (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-5df1997cce171d566ceef2c1dcbad31aaa6b2b70.tar.gz | |
add section discussing not using ~ and the need for absoulte paths.
BKrev: 40da3126gKKJF0sZxTA-KlpTs--Vkg
Diffstat (limited to 'conf')
| -rw-r--r-- | conf/local.conf.sample | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/conf/local.conf.sample b/conf/local.conf.sample index 6bc2af0032..93179b5f2f 100644 --- a/conf/local.conf.sample +++ b/conf/local.conf.sample @@ -15,6 +15,16 @@ # then EDIT IT. Fixup any paths to point to the correct locations, and # setup the target specifications appropriately. +# ** READ THIS CAREFULLY ** +# +# NOTE: Do NOT use ~ in your paths, OE does NOT expand ~ for you. If you +# must have paths relative to your homedir use ${HOME} (note the {}'s there +# you MUST have them for the variable expansion to be done by OE). Your +# paths should all be absolute paths (They should all start with a / after +# expansion. Stuff like starting with ${HOME} or ${TOPDIR} is ok). +# +# ** READ THIS CAREFULLY ** + # Once you have done that, you will want to cd into your build environment # (${HOME}/oe/build/ in this example), then run "oemake targets..." This # will build into ${TMPDIR} which defaults to ${TOPDIR}/tmp (${TOPDIR} is |