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authorTimo Mueller <timo.mueller@bmw-carit.de>2013-02-08 09:16:33 -0600
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documentation: Part 1 of 2 updates to integrating docs to Eclipse help.
Hi, the generation of eclipse help files has been merged from the timo branch to the master. Since the creation of the timo branch there have been some changes to the master branch (e.g. new documentation, renamed documentation). This patch set does some cleanup for the renamed documentation and adds eclipse help generation support to the new documentation. 01: Removes the 'the' from the document titles 02..04: Cleanup obsolete artifacts resulting from the merge 05..08: Add eclipse help generation for ref-manual 09..13: Add eclipse help generation for kernel-dev 14..18: Add eclipse help generation for profile-manual Best regards, Timo This patch set originally contained 18 patches. I (Scott Rifenbark) had to push these changes as two parts. This is the first part. It does not include creation of the three cusomization files. (From yocto-docs rev: 9b1889f6e31ee70dae704fa08763fb9196616dad) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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15<p>
16 As mentioned in the previous section, the
17 <code class="filename">LIC_FILES_CHKSUM</code> variable lists all the
18 important files that contain the license text for the source code.
19 It is possible to specify a checksum for an entire file, or a specific section of a
20 file (specified by beginning and ending line numbers with the "beginline" and "endline"
21 parameters, respectively).
22 The latter is useful for source files with a license notice header,
23 README documents, and so forth.
24 If you do not use the "beginline" parameter, then it is assumed that the text begins on the
25 first line of the file.
26 Similarly, if you do not use the "endline" parameter, it is assumed that the license text
27 ends with the last line of the file.
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29<p>
30 The "md5" parameter stores the md5 checksum of the license text.
31 If the license text changes in any way as compared to this parameter
32 then a mismatch occurs.
33 This mismatch triggers a build failure and notifies the developer.
34 Notification allows the developer to review and address the license text changes.
35 Also note that if a mismatch occurs during the build, the correct md5
36 checksum is placed in the build log and can be easily copied to the recipe.
37 </p>
38<p>
39 There is no limit to how many files you can specify using the
40 <code class="filename">LIC_FILES_CHKSUM</code> variable.
41 Generally, however, every project requires a few specifications for license tracking.
42 Many projects have a "COPYING" file that stores the license information for all the source
43 code files.
44 This practice allows you to just track the "COPYING" file as long as it is kept up to date.
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47<h3 class="title">Tip</h3>
48 If you specify an empty or invalid "md5" parameter, BitBake returns an md5 mis-match
49 error and displays the correct "md5" parameter value during the build.
50 The correct parameter is also captured in the build log.
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52<div class="tip" title="Tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
53<h3 class="title">Tip</h3>
54 If the whole file contains only license text, you do not need to use the "beginline" and
55 "endline" parameters.
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