docs/manual: document the effect of per-package directory on variables

As suggested by Arnout Vandecappelle, this commit adjusts the
generic-package documentation to document the effect of per-package
directory support on HOST_DIR, STAGING_DIR and TARGET_DIR.

Suggested-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>

diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
index b2386f2c01c4de964e02b2662ce1497abb48468e..86300e74602d467bb44718f2de826acc7a28eef2 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
@@ -586,6 +586,13 @@ In the action definitions, you can use the following variables:
 * +$(TARGET_CROSS)+ to get the cross-compilation toolchain prefix
 
 * Of course the +$(HOST_DIR)+, +$(STAGING_DIR)+ and +$(TARGET_DIR)+
-  variables to install the packages properly.
+  variables to install the packages properly. Those variables point to
+  the global _host_, _staging_ and _target_ directories, unless
+  _per-package directory_ support is used, in which case they point to
+  the current package _host_, _staging_ and _target_ directories. In
+  both cases, it doesn't make any difference from the package point of
+  view: it should simply use +HOST_DIR+, +STAGING_DIR+ and
+  +TARGET_DIR+. See xref:top-level-parallel-build[] for more details
+  about _per-package directory_ support.
 
 Finally, you can also use hooks. See xref:hooks[] for more information.