migration-guides: Add coverage of addpylib directive

To complement what I am adding to the BitBake reference manual, add a
section in the 4.2 migration guide, a reference in the structure section
of the reference manual (where we talk about meta/lib) and adjust the
release notes item to be a little more concise.

(From yocto-docs rev: 0903e82a9da263c6d64aead03407eb377eb5bbfe)

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning@bluelightning.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Paul Eggleton 2023-04-22 15:19:42 +12:00 committed by Richard Purdie
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@ -85,6 +85,28 @@ On the other hand, some earlier distributions are no longer supported:
See :ref:`all supported distributions <system-requirements-supported-distros>`.
.. _migration-4.2-addpylib:
Python library code extensions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BitBake in this release now supports a new ``addpylib`` directive to enable
Python libraries within layers.
This directive should be added to your layer configuration
as in the below example from ``meta/conf/layer.conf``::
addpylib ${LAYERDIR}/lib oe
Layers currently adding a lib directory to extend Python library code should now
use this directive as :term:`BBPATH` is not going to be added automatically by
OE-Core in future. Note that the directives are immediate operations, so it does
make modules available for use sooner than the current BBPATH-based approach.
For more information, see :ref:`bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata:extending python library code`.
.. _migration-4.2-misc-changes:
Miscellaneous changes

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@ -11,12 +11,8 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.2
:term:`buildtools` tarball.
- BitBake in this release now supports a new ``addpylib`` directive to enable
Python libraries within layers.
This directive should be added to your layer configuration
as in the below example from ``meta/conf/layer.conf``::
addpylib ${LAYERDIR}/lib oe
Python libraries within layers. For more information,
see :ref:`bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata:extending python library code`.
- BitBake has seen multiple internal changes that may impact
memory and disk usage as well as parsing time, in particular:

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@ -750,7 +750,9 @@ and lists of files and directories with known permissions.
-------------
This directory contains OpenEmbedded Python library code used during the
build process.
build process. It is enabled via the ``addpylib`` directive in
``meta/conf/local.conf``. For more information, see
:ref:`bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata:extending python library code`.
.. _structure-meta-recipes-bsp: