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| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/migration-guides/migration-5.1.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-5.1.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-5.1.rst index c1cc711a42..b43fecc2dd 100644 --- a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-5.1.rst +++ b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-5.1.rst @@ -59,9 +59,14 @@ Previously, :term:`S` was always created but after the recent changes it is no longer the case. This means the check in ``do_unpack_qa`` triggers where :term:`S` is not created by a recipe while it didn't happen before. This can require to add an :term:`S` definition to a recipe that only uses -``file://`` :term:`SRC_URI` entries. Building C files from :term:`UNPACKDIR` -without setting :term:`S` to point at it does not work as the debug prefix -mapping doesn't handle that. +``file://`` :term:`SRC_URI` entries. To be consistent, the following pattern is +recommended:: + + S = "${WORKDIR}/sources" + UNPACKDIR = "${S}" + +Building C files from :term:`UNPACKDIR` without setting :term:`S` to point at +it does not work as the debug prefix mapping doesn't handle that. ``devtool`` and ``recipetool`` have been updated to handle this and their support for ``S = WORKDIR`` and ``oe-local-files`` has been removed. |