ref-manual: Added new THISDIR variable and fixed some minor issues.

1. Added a new glossary entry for the THISDIR variable.

2. Inserted a link in the note of the FILESEXTRAPATHS variable
   to the new THISDIR glossary entry.

(From yocto-docs rev: a4e704ff165959fab9c1e6f7d28906e8f15c6d27)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index 43b387c749..14772017fa 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -1180,7 +1180,8 @@ Core layer for images cannot be removed
                         be sure to use the immediate expansion
                         (<filename>:=</filename>) operator.
                         Immediate expansion makes sure that BitBake evaluates
-                        <filename>THISDIR</filename> at the time the directive
+                        <link linkend='var-THISDIR'><filename>THISDIR</filename></link>
+                        at the time the directive
                         is encountered rather than at some later time when
                         expansion might result in a directory that does not
                         contain the files you need.</para>
@@ -3849,6 +3850,16 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3"
             </glossdef>
         </glossentry>
 
+        <glossentry id='var-THISDIR'><glossterm>THISDIR</glossterm>
+            <glossdef>
+                <para>
+                    The directory in which the file BitBake is currently
+                    parsing is located.
+                    Do not manually set this variable.
+                </para>
+            </glossdef>
+        </glossentry>
+
         <glossentry id='var-TMPDIR'><glossterm>TMPDIR</glossterm>
             <glossdef>
                 <para>