ref-manual: Updated the FILESPATH variable description

Added some key references to the patching areas of discussion across
the manual set.

(From yocto-docs rev: f198529b3072a4a03fd368ea307e8e004c46a344)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Scott Rifenbark
2018-05-04 06:06:14 -07:00
committed by Richard Purdie
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During the build process, BitBake searches each directory in
<filename>FILESPATH</filename> in the specified order when
looking for files and patches specified by each
<filename>file://</filename> URI in a recipe.
<filename>file://</filename> URI in a recipe's
<link linkend='var-SRC_URI'><filename>SRC_URI</filename></link>
statements.
</para>
<para>
@@ -4962,6 +4964,18 @@
the <filename>FILESPATH</filename> variable by using
the <filename>FILESEXTRAPATHS</filename> variable.
</para>
<para>
You can find out more about the patching process in the
"<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_OM_URL;#patching-dev-environment'>Patching</ulink>"
section in the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual
and the
"<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#new-recipe-patching-code'>Patching Code</ulink>"
section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
See the
<link linkend='ref-tasks-patch'><filename>do_patch</filename></link>
task as well.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>