From 0f8337865f8530c653fe67bb7daead3cc5c799f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Opdenacker Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 17:25:26 +0100 Subject: manuals: add reference to GIR_EXTRA_LIBS_PATH plus minor improvements Fixes [YOCTO #14533] (From yocto-docs rev: 84001d5d4258dad9e3663ea842ecc291d9e1a7dd) Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation/dev-manual') diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst index 8bd82223f2..ed6b1446f3 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst @@ -4949,8 +4949,7 @@ the x32 psABI. Here is an example:: Enabling GObject Introspection Support ====================================== -`GObject -introspection `__ +`GObject introspection `__ is the standard mechanism for accessing GObject-based software from runtime environments. GObject is a feature of the GLib library that provides an object framework for the GNOME desktop and related software. @@ -4962,7 +4961,7 @@ introspection is the only way to do it. This section describes the Yocto Project support for generating and packaging GObject introspection data. GObject introspection data is a -description of the API provided by libraries built on top of GLib +description of the API provided by libraries built on top of the GLib framework, and, in particular, that framework's GObject mechanism. GObject Introspection Repository (GIR) files go to ``-dev`` packages, ``typelib`` files go to main packages as they are packaged together with @@ -5008,7 +5007,7 @@ library package involves the following: .. note:: See recipes in the ``oe-core`` repository that use that - ``GIR_EXTRA_LIBS_PATH`` variable as an example. + :term:`GIR_EXTRA_LIBS_PATH` variable as an example. 4. Look for any other errors, which probably mean that introspection support in a package is not entirely standard, and thus breaks down -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf