[yocto] Section 5.10.6, current YP reference manual, "default working directory"

[Robert P. J. Day]

just noticed this in ref manual:

  "${B} is no longer the default working directory for tasks.
  Consequently, any custom tasks you define now need to either have
  the [dirs] flag set, or the task needs to change into the appropriate
  working directory manually (e.g using cd for a shell task)."

  Note

    The preferred method is to use the [dirs] flag.

except it was just recently that ross burton(?) pointed me at OE's
base.bbclass to see the default working directory for at least the
most fundamental tasks:

  $ grep "\[dirs\]" base.bbclass
  do_fetch[dirs] = "${DL_DIR}"
  do_unpack[dirs] = "${WORKDIR}"
  do_configure[dirs] = "${B}"
  do_compile[dirs] = "${B}"
  do_install[dirs] = "${B}"
  $

so, *technically*, that claim in the ref manual is not wholly true;
there are still a small number of tasks that use that default
directory. is that a distinction worth making in the reference manual?

rday

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