ref-manual: Added new variable COMPONENTS_DIR to glossary

Added new description and created a link for an
existing occurance of the variable.

(From yocto-docs rev: 9ab6e6aed685c9419cb7df3df3ab029033d9ba0e)

Signed-off-by: Kristi Rifenbark <kristi.rifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index 0289ad183f..2b5f0e1494 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -2208,6 +2208,27 @@
             </glossdef>
         </glossentry>
 
+        <glossentry id='var-COMPONENTS_DIR'><glossterm>COMPONENTS_DIR</glossterm>
+            <info>
+                COMPONENTS_DIR[doc] = "Stores sysroot components for each recipe."
+            </info>
+            <glossdef>
+                <para role="glossdeffirst">
+<!--                <para role="glossdeffirst"><imagedata fileref="figures/define-generic.png" /> -->
+                    Stores sysroot components for each recipe.
+                    The OpenEmbedded build system uses
+                    <filename>COMPONENTS_DIR</filename> when constructing
+                    recipe-specific sysroots for other recipes.
+                </para>
+
+                <para>
+                    The default is
+                    "<filename>${</filename><link linkend='var-STAGING_DIR'><filename>STAGING_DIR</filename></link><filename>}-components</filename>."
+                    (i.e. "<filename>${TMPDIR}/sysroots-components</filename>".
+                </para>
+            </glossdef>
+        </glossentry>
+
         <glossentry id='var-CONF_VERSION'><glossterm>CONF_VERSION</glossterm>
             <info>
                 CONF_VERSION[doc] = "Tracks the version of local.conf.  Increased each time build/conf/ changes incompatibly."