[poky] [PATCH] fix a typo in usermanual on lazy default

[Saul Wold]

On 11/22/2010 07:22 AM, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
> Where is this documentation?  (/Bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml)
>
Scott, Qing

This would be a change that needs to be made to the upstream bitbake manual.

You could resend this patch to the  bitbake-dev at lists.berlios.de

Sau!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wold, Saul
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 2:38 PM
> To: poky at yoctoproject.org; Rifenbark, Scott M
> Subject: Re: [poky] [PATCH] fix a typo in usermanual on lazy default
>
> On 11/18/2010 08:40 PM, Qing He wrote:
>> "??= ... is a lazy version of ??=", the second should be ?=
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Qing He<qing.he at intel.com>
>>
>
> Should all doc changes go through Scott R, and then into master that way?
>
> Just checking on process.
>
> Scott R: If you need help pulling changes let me know.
>
> Sau!
>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml b/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml
>> index 748ac31..2b7a0b5 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>
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