[yocto] Documentation: Default FILESDIR

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> When a new user goes to write a recipe and add a patch or other file,
> they need to understand FILESDIR and where to put these additional
> files. I scanned the reference manual and the dev manual and came up
> mostly empty handed. The one glipse of it is in section 5.1.4 of the
> Reference Manual:
>
> "
> It is useful when making changes directly to the work directory files to
> do so using the Quilt tool as detailed in the Modifying Package Source
> Code with Quilt section. Using Quilt, you can copy patches into the
> recipe directory and use the patches directly through use of the SRC_URI
> variable.
> "
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't say where the recipe directory is and what
> it should be named.
>
> Is this documented somewhere that I missed? If not, Scott can you add
> this task to your list of doc gaps?

FILESDIR hasn't actually been used (or, shouldn't have been) for
years. FILESPATH replaced it.
-- 
Christopher Larson