diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index 3b93e2297e..c815d3cfa0 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -1792,12 +1792,14 @@ FILESPATH = "${@base_set_filespath([ "${FILE_DIRNAME}/${PF}", \
The TCMODE variable selects the external toolchain
built from the Yocto Project or a few supported combinations of
the upstream GCC or CodeSourcery Labs toolchain.
- The variable determines which of the files in
- meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-* is used.
+ The variable determines which of the tcmode-* files in
+ the meta/conf/distro/include directory, which is found in the
+ Yocto Project Files,
+ is used.
By default, TCMODE is set to "default", which
- chooses tcmode-default.inc.
+ chooses the tcmode-default.inc file.
The variable is similar to
TCLIBC, which controls
the variant of the GNU standard C library (libc)