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documentation/bsp: update to reference FILESEXTRAPATHS

It's no longer neccesarry to define THISDIR and FILESPATH in each bbappend
recipe. Should you need to reference extra files you should use FILESEXTRAPATHS

Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock <josh@linux.intel.com>
Joshua Lock 15 years ago
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      documentation/poky-ref-manual/bsp.xml

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documentation/poky-ref-manual/bsp.xml

@@ -284,13 +284,13 @@ meta-bsp/packages/image-creator/image-creator-native_0.1.bb
             This allows the BSP layer to poke around and do whatever it might want to customise
             the original recipe.
 
-            .bbappend is expected to include the below two lines in the head (which may be changed
-            in the future):
+            If your recipe needs to reference extra files it can use the FILESEXTRAPATH variable
+            to specify their location. The example below shows extra files contained in a folder
+            called ${PN} (the package name).
             </para>
 
             <programlisting>
-THISDIR := "${@os.path.dirname(bb.data.getVar('FILE', d, True))}"
-FILESPATH =. "${@base_set_filespath(["${THISDIR}/${PN}"], d)}:"
+FILESEXTRAPATHS := "${THISDIR}/${PN}"
             </programlisting>
 
             <para>