manuals: create references to buildtools

On the side, also simplify a reference to the section describing them.

(From yocto-docs rev: 0c13a7f9ccee4ddc9c6034d03f47625a09598cec)

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst
index 4081dbebd7..ec447d35d2 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/terms.rst
@@ -109,6 +109,24 @@ universal, the list includes them just in case:
       environment. The build system is sometimes referred to as the development
       host.
 
+   :term:`buildtools`
+      Build tools in binary form, providing required versions of development
+      tools (such as Git, GCC, Python and make), to run the OpenEmbedded build
+      system on a development host without such minimum versions.
+
+      See the ":ref:`system-requirements-buildtools`" paragraph in the
+      Reference Manual for details about downloading or building an archive
+      of such tools.
+
+   :term:`buildtools-extended`
+      A set of :term:`buildtools` binaries extended with additional development
+      tools, such as a required version of the GCC compiler to run the
+      OpenEmbedded build system.
+
+   :term:`buildtools-make`
+      A variant of :term:`buildtools`, just providing the required
+      version of ``make`` to run the OpenEmbedded build system.
+
    :term:`Classes`
       Files that provide for logic encapsulation and inheritance so that
       commonly used patterns can be defined once and then easily used in