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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2013-12-05 12:33:36 -0600
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2013-12-11 14:17:56 +0000
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ref-manual: Edits to base class.
(From yocto-docs rev: 91e5eb73e223fc8fb95978d39a57b4790760daec) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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133</section> 133</section>
134 134
135<section id='ref-classes-base'> 135<section id='ref-classes-base'>
136 <title>The base Class - <filename>base.bbclass</filename></title> 136 <title><filename>base.bbclass</filename></title>
137 137
138 <para> 138 <para>
139 The base class is special in that every <filename>.bb</filename> 139 The <filename>base</filename> class is special in that every
140 file inherits it automatically. 140 <filename>.bb</filename> file automatically inherits the class.
141 This class contains definitions for standard basic 141 This class contains definitions for standard basic
142 tasks such as fetching, unpacking, configuring (empty by default), compiling 142 tasks such as fetching, unpacking, configuring (empty by default),
143 (runs any <filename>Makefile</filename> present), installing (empty by default) and packaging 143 compiling (runs any <filename>Makefile</filename> present), installing
144 (empty by default). 144 (empty by default) and packaging (empty by default).
145 These classes are often overridden or extended by other classes 145 These classes are often overridden or extended by other classes
146 such as <filename>autotools.bbclass</filename> or <filename>package.bbclass</filename>. 146 such as the
147 The class also contains some commonly used functions such as <filename>oe_runmake</filename>. 147 <link linkend='ref-classes-autotools'><filename>autotools</filename></link>
148 class or the
149 <link linkend='ref-classes-package'><filename>package</filename></link>
150 class.
151 The class also contains some commonly used functions such as
152 <filename>oe_runmake</filename>.
148 </para> 153 </para>
149</section> 154</section>
150 155