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

On Wed, 17 Jun 2026, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> 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?

  never mind, i finally clued in to the fact that oe_soinstall is
meant to be used in the context of out-of-tree or vendor-specific
recipes, so one should not expect to find it in "normal" OE/YP layers.

rday