Re: [docs] should the dev manual "libraries" sections explain "oe_libinstall"?

On Tue, 16 Jun 2026, Antonin Godard wrote:

> On Thu Jun 11, 2026 at 1:26 PM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   while the "Working with Pre-Built Libraries" section:
> >
> > https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev-manual/prebuilt-libraries.html
> >
> > explains the "oe_soinstall" utility, i see nothing anywhere in the
> > docs that explains the similar "oe_libinstall" utility, for which
> > there are a few examples scattered around, such as mtd-utils:
> >
> > https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/mtd/mtd-utils_2.3.1.bb
> >
> >   does this deserve a mention?
>
> Yes please

  oddly(?), while i have a couple dozen layers checked out, i could
not find a single invocation of "oe_soinstall()" anywhere in any of
those layers. i did find a number of calls to "oe_libinstall()" so
while that's worth documenting, is the former even being used?

rday