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bitbake: bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml: Edits to PROVIDES variable.

Added some more detail to help describe the variable.

(Bitbake rev: 4b2019e67324f0f86e1a49d256eddb4f9ca597f4)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Scott Rifenbark
2014-06-26 09:50:26 +03:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent 41b46d7826
commit 157c80f488
@@ -1744,16 +1744,28 @@
<glossentry id='var-PROVIDES'><glossterm>PROVIDES</glossterm> <glossentry id='var-PROVIDES'><glossterm>PROVIDES</glossterm>
<glossdef> <glossdef>
<para> <para>
A list of aliases that a recipe also provides. A list of aliases by which a particular recipe can be
These aliases are useful for satisfying dependencies of known.
other recipes during the build (as specified by By default, a recipe's own
<filename><link linkend='var-DEPENDS'>DEPENDS</link></filename>). <filename><link linkend='var-PN'>PN</link></filename>
<note> is implicitly already in its <filename>PROVIDES</filename>
A recipe's own list.
<filename><link linkend='var-PN'>PN</link></filename> If a recipe uses <filename>PROVIDES</filename>, the
is implicitly already in its additional aliases are synonyms for the recipe and can
<filename>PROVIDES</filename> list. be useful satisfying dependencies of other recipes during
</note> the build as specified by
<filename><link linkend='var-DEPENDS'>DEPENDS</link></filename>.
</para>
<para>
Consider the following example
<filename>PROVIDES</filename> statement from a recipe
file <filename>libav_0.8.11.bb</filename>:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
PROVIDES += "libpostproc"
</literallayout>
The <filename>PROVIDES</filename> statement results in
the "libav" recipe also being known as "libpostproc".
</para> </para>
</glossdef> </glossdef>
</glossentry> </glossentry>