labs: yocto: stm32: lab1: add note on setting username and email

It seems that the openocd build is failing without this for some reason (it shouldn't in theory, the git fetcher is supposed to set that...). Reported-by: Alexandre Belloni <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/labs/yocto-first-build-stm32/yocto-first-build-stm32.tex b/labs/yocto-first-build-stm32/yocto-first-build-stm32.tex
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ \section{Set up the build environment}
 \code{meta-openembedded/meta-oe}, \code{meta-openembedded/meta-python} and \code{meta-st-stm32mp} directory to the
 \yoctovar{BBLAYERS} variable.
 
+Finally, if not done already, configure a git username and email as some recipe
+can fail without it:
+\begin{verbatim}
+git config --global user.name "Your Name"
+git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
+\end{verbatim}
+
 \section{Build your first image}
 
 Now that you're ready to start the compilation, simply run: