[poky] [PATCH] bitbake: correct typo in ??= documentation

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Apr 18 01:41:03 PDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 17:11 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> ??= is a lazy version of ?=
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml b/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml
> index 32b40ee..d5be5f3 100644
> --- a/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml
> +++ b/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml
> @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ share common metadata between many packages.</para></listitem>
>                  <title>Setting a default value (??=)</title>
>                  <para><screen><varname>A</varname> ??= "somevalue"</screen></para>
>                  <para><screen><varname>A</varname> ??= "someothervalue"</screen></para>
> -                <para>If <varname>A</varname> is set before the above, it will retain that value.  If <varname>A</varname> is unset prior to the above, <varname>A</varname> will be set to <literal>someothervalue</literal>.  This is a lazy version of ??=, in that the assignment does not occur until the end of the parsing process, so that the last, rather than the first, ??= assignment to a given variable will be used.</para>
> +                <para>If <varname>A</varname> is set before the above, it will retain that value.  If <varname>A</varname> is unset prior to the above, <varname>A</varname> will be set to <literal>someothervalue</literal>.  This is a lazy version of ?=, in that the assignment does not occur until the end of the parsing process, so that the last, rather than the first, ??= assignment to a given variable will be used.</para>
>              </section>
>              <section>
>                  <title>Immediate variable expansion (:=)</title>

Merged into poky master (and will follow into bitbake master), thanks.

Richard




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