[yocto] ref manual, sections 2.3.[67], ambiguity with "-b" option to bitbake

[Robert P. J. Day]

  section 2.3.6 of ref manual explains that bitbake "-b" option refers
specifically to a recipe *file*:

"If you really want to build a specific .bb file, you can use the
command form bitbake -b <somepath/somefile.bb>."

but the very next section uses "-b" in the context of a simple recipe
*name* when combining it with "-e":

"You can use the -e BitBake option to display the resulting
environment for a configuration when you do not specify a package or
for a specific package when you do specify the package. If you want to
show the environment resulting from parsing a single recipe, use the
-b recipename form."

  that suggests i could run something like:

$ bitbake -e -b zlib

which seems to work. clarification? is "-b" meant to refer to a simple
recipe *name* when used in the context of "-e"?

rday

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