diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 79a3da3437..b35dc2f0a9 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -1294,10 +1294,16 @@
or
oe-init-build-env-memres).
Here is the basic recipetool syntax:
+
+ Running recipetool -h or
+ recipetool create -h produces the
+ Python-generated help, which presented differently
+ than what follows here.
+
recipetool -h
recipetool create [-h]
- recipetool [-d] [-q] [--color auto | always | never ] create [-o OUTFILE] [-m] [-x EXTERNALSRC] source
+ recipetool [-d] [-q] [--color auto | always | never ] create -o OUTFILE [-m] [-x EXTERNALSRC] source
-d Enables debug output.
-q Outputs only errors (quiet mode).
@@ -1320,9 +1326,9 @@
- Running recipetool creates the base
- recipe and locates it properly in the layer that contains
- your source files.
+ Running recipetool create -o OUTFILE
+ creates the base recipe and locates it properly in the
+ layer that contains your source files.
Following are some syntax examples:
@@ -1331,20 +1337,14 @@
Once generated, the recipe resides in the existing source
code layer:
- recipetool create source
+ recipetool create -o OUTFILE source
Use this syntax to generate a recipe using code that you
extract from source.
The extracted code is placed in its own layer defined
by EXTERNALSRC.
- recipetool create -x EXTERNALSRC source
-
- Use this syntax to generate a recipe and override the
- tool's default placement of the recipe by specifying both
- its location and name using OUTFILE.
-
- recipetool create -o OUTFILE source
+ recipetool create -o OUTFILE -x EXTERNALSRC source
Use this syntax to generate a recipe based on source.
The options direct recipetool to