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diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-3.3.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-3.3.rst index aba5c4237c..d1e589d7b4 100644 --- a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-3.3.rst +++ b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-3.3.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK + Release 3.3 (hardknott) ======================= @@ -12,7 +14,7 @@ Minimum system requirements You will now need at least Python 3.6 installed on your build host. Most recent distributions provide this, but should you be building on a distribution that -does not have it, you can use the ``buildtools-tarball`` (easily installable +does not have it, you can use the :term:`buildtools` tarball (easily installable using ``scripts/install-buildtools``) --- see :ref:`ref-manual/system-requirements:required git, tar, python, make and gcc versions` for details. @@ -61,13 +63,15 @@ need to update those. New ``python3targetconfig`` class --------------------------------- -A new :ref:`python3targetconfig <ref-classes-python3targetconfig>` class has been -created for situations where you would previously have inherited the -:ref:`python3native <ref-classes-python3native>` class but need access to target configuration data (such as -correct installation directories). Recipes where this situation applies should -be changed to inherit ``python3targetconfig`` instead of ``python3native``. This -also adds a dependency on target ``python3``, so it should only be used where -appropriate in order to avoid unnecessarily lengthening builds. +A new :ref:`ref-classes-python3targetconfig` class has +been created for situations where you would previously have inherited the +:ref:`ref-classes-python3native` class but need access to +target configuration data (such as correct installation directories). Recipes +where this situation applies should be changed to inherit +:ref:`ref-classes-python3targetconfig` instead of +:ref:`ref-classes-python3native`. This also adds a dependency +on target ``python3``, so it should only be used where appropriate in order to +avoid unnecessarily lengthening builds. Some example recipes where this change has been made: ``gpgme``, ``libcap-ng``, ``python3-pycairo``. @@ -95,11 +99,10 @@ variable so that recipes can specify it explicitly, for example:: S = "${WORKDIR}/git" DISTUTILS_SETUP_PATH = "${S}/python/pythonmodule" -Recipes that inherit from ``distutils3`` (or -:ref:`setuptools3 <ref-classes-setuptools3>` which itself inherits -``distutils3``) that also set :term:`S` to -point to a Python module within a subdirectory in the aforementioned -manner should be changed to set ``DISTUTILS_SETUP_PATH`` instead. +Recipes that inherit from ``distutils3`` (or :ref:`ref-classes-setuptools3` +which itself inherits ``distutils3``) that also set :term:`S` to point to a +Python module within a subdirectory in the aforementioned manner should be +changed to set ``DISTUTILS_SETUP_PATH`` instead. .. _migration-3.3-bitbake: |