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overview-manual: Small revisions to "Patching" section.

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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 09:55:27 -07:00
committed by Richard Purdie
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<para>
The
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#ref-tasks-patch'><filename>do_patch</filename></ulink>
task processes recipes by using the
task uses a recipe's
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-SRC_URI'><filename>SRC_URI</filename></ulink>
statements and the
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-FILESPATH'><filename>FILESPATH</filename></ulink>
variable to locate applicable patch files.
</para>
<para>
Default processing for patch files assumes the files have
either <filename>*.patch</filename> or
<filename>*.diff</filename> endings.
<filename>*.diff</filename> file types.
You can use <filename>SRC_URI</filename> parameters to
change the way the build system recognizes patch files.
See the
@@ -1257,8 +1262,11 @@
<para>
BitBake finds and applies multiple patches for a single
recipe in the order in which it locates the patches.
Patches are applied to the recipe's source files, which
are located in the
The <filename>FILESPATH</filename> variable defines the
default set of directories that the build system uses to
search for patch files.
Once found, patches are applied to the recipe's source
files, which are located in the
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-S'><filename>S</filename></ulink>
directory.
</para>