[yocto] FILESEXTRAPATHS needs to be explained *way* better

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Chris Larson wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>         in addition, there is absolutely no need to add a ":" to the value
>       as the processing adds that for you, so the many, many examples of
>
>       FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
>
>       is potentially confusing to folks reading the code.  (that trailing
>       ":" doesn't hurt, but it has no value.)
>
>
> This is wrong. You only don't need the leading : if FILESEXTRAPATHS
> was empty to begin with, which is only the case if that is the first
> and only bbappend adding to it. As soon as you get more than one,
> you'll end up with concatenated values and no separator.

  i'm confused, not sure what this means.  what is the *proper* usage
of that variable?

rday

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