diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/usingpoky.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
index ecc2ea3653..15e1d47301 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
@@ -253,7 +253,8 @@
Sometimes it can be hard to see why BitBake wants to build other
recipes before the one you have specified.
- Dependency information can help you understand recipe build order.
+ Dependency information can help you understand why a recipe is
+ built.
@@ -293,32 +294,45 @@
The graphs are in
DOT
- format and can be converted to images (e.g. using the "dot" tool
- from
- Graphviz.
-
- DOT files use a plain text format.
- The graphs generated using the
- bitbake -g command are often so large as
- to be impossible to read without special pruning (e.g. with
- Bitbake's -I option) and processing.
- Despite the form and size of the files, the corresponding
- .dot files can still be easy to read
- and provide useful information.
+ format and can be converted to images (e.g. using the
+ dot tool from
+ Graphviz).
+ Notes
+
+
+ DOT files use a plain text format.
+ The graphs generated using the
+ bitbake -g command are often so
+ large as to be difficult to read without special
+ pruning (e.g. with Bitbake's
+ -I option) and processing.
+ Despite the form and size of the graphs, the
+ corresponding .dot files can still
+ be possible to read and provide useful information.
+
- As an example, the
- task-depends.dot file contains lines such
- as the following:
-
+ As an example, the
+ task-depends.dot file contains
+ lines such as the following:
+
"libxslt.do_configure" -> "libxml2.do_populate_sysroot"
-
- The above example line reveals that the
- do_configure
- task in libxslt depends on the
- do_populate_sysroot
- task in libxml2, which is a normal
- DEPENDS
- dependency between the two recipes.
+
+ The above example line reveals that the
+ do_configure
+ task in libxslt depends on the
+ do_populate_sysroot
+ task in libxml2, which is a normal
+ DEPENDS
+ dependency between the two recipes.
+
+
+ For an example of how .dot files
+ can be processed, see the
+ scripts/contrib/graph-tool Python
+ script, which finds and displays paths between graph
+ nodes.
+
+