diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-model.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-model.xml
index 55bad34064..43c31b8405 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-model.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-model.xml
@@ -295,8 +295,7 @@
linux-yocto-3.14 - The
stable Yocto Project kernel to use with the Yocto
Project Releases 1.6 and 1.7.
- These kernels are based on the Linux 3.14 and 3.17
- released kernels, respectively.
+ This kernel is based on the Linux 3.14 released kernel.
linux-yocto-3.17 - An
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml
index dd8c3e00cc..f8bd852ad8 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml
@@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@
Some of the core recipes that package binary configuration scripts
- now disable the scripts instead due to the
+ now disable the scripts due to the
scripts previously requiring error-prone path substitution.
Software that links against these libraries using these scripts
should use the much more robust pkg-config
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
index 1b01ef61c9..496425a5a9 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
@@ -103,11 +103,11 @@
By default, the autotools class supports
- out-of-tree builds
+ using out-of-tree builds
(B!=S).
- If your recipes do not support out-of-tree builds, you should
- have them inherit the
+ If the software being built by a recipe does not support
+ using out-of-tree builds, you should have the recipe inherit the
autotools-brokensep
class.
@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@
It's useful to have some idea of how the tasks defined by this class work
and what they do behind the scenes.
- do_configure ‐ Regenerates the
+ do_configure ‐
+ Regenerates the
configure script (using autoreconf) and then launches it
with a standard set of arguments used during cross-compilation.
You can pass additional parameters to configure through the