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diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-1.7.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-1.7.rst index 8213ab58d9..ca8222098a 100644 --- a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-1.7.rst +++ b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-1.7.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK + Release 1.7 (dizzy) =================== @@ -30,7 +32,7 @@ version required on the build host is now 1.7.8 because the ``--list`` option is now required by BitBake's Git fetcher. As always, if your host distribution does not provide a version of Git that meets this requirement, you can use the -``buildtools-tarball`` that does. See the +:term:`buildtools` tarball that does. See the ":ref:`ref-manual/system-requirements:required git, tar, python, make and gcc versions`" section for more information. @@ -39,13 +41,11 @@ section for more information. Autotools Class Changes ----------------------- -The following :ref:`autotools <ref-classes-autotools>` class changes -occurred: +The following :ref:`ref-classes-autotools` class changes occurred: -- *A separate build directory is now used by default:* The - :ref:`autotools <ref-classes-autotools>` class has been - changed to use a directory for building - (:term:`B`), which is separate from the source directory +- *A separate :term:`Build Directory` is now used by default:* The + :ref:`ref-classes-autotools` class has been changed to use a directory for + building (:term:`B`), which is separate from the source directory (:term:`S`). This is commonly referred to as ``B != S``, or an out-of-tree build. @@ -54,9 +54,8 @@ occurred: However, if the software is not capable of being built in this manner, you will need to either patch the software so that it can build separately, or you will need to change the recipe to inherit - the :ref:`autotools-brokensep <ref-classes-autotools>` class - instead of the :ref:`autotools <ref-classes-autotools>` - or ``autotools_stage`` classes. + the :ref:`autotools-brokensep <ref-classes-autotools>` class instead + of the :ref:`ref-classes-autotools` or ``autotools_stage`` classes. - The ``--foreign`` option is no longer passed to ``automake`` when running ``autoconf``: This option tells ``automake`` that a @@ -165,7 +164,7 @@ The following changes have occurred to the QA check process: more parallel execution. This change is unlikely to be an issue except for highly customized recipes that disable packaging tasks themselves by marking them as ``noexec``. For those packages, you - will need to disable the ``do_package_qa`` task as well. + will need to disable the :ref:`ref-tasks-package_qa` task as well. - Files being overwritten during the :ref:`ref-tasks-populate_sysroot` task now @@ -217,7 +216,7 @@ The following miscellaneous change occurred: should manually remove old "build-id" files from your existing build history repositories to avoid confusion. For information on the build history feature, see the - ":ref:`dev-manual/common-tasks:maintaining build output quality`" + ":ref:`dev-manual/build-quality:maintaining build output quality`" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual. |