[yocto] What's the purpose of BDIR in oe-buildenv-internal?
prepping to give a yocto talk to my local (ottawa) LUG next week, and was reviewing the logic of the setup starting with oe-init-build-env, and noticed in scripts/oe-buildenv-internal a test of the variable BDIR for the name of the build directory. but there's no mention of that variable in the calling oe-init-build-env, and i see no mention of it in the intro-level docs. clearly, one could use that shell env variable if one wanted to name the build directory to be used, but given that there's absolutely no explanation of it anywhere for a new user, what exactly is its purpose? rday ___ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
Re: [yocto] What's the purpose of BDIR in oe-buildenv-internal?
On 10/27/2011 01:27 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: prepping to give a yocto talk to my local (ottawa) LUG next week, and was reviewing the logic of the setup starting with oe-init-build-env, and noticed in scripts/oe-buildenv-internal a test of the variable BDIR for the name of the build directory. but there's no mention of that variable in the calling oe-init-build-env, and i see no mention of it in the intro-level docs. clearly, one could use that shell env variable if one wanted to name the build directory to be used, but given that there's absolutely no explanation of it anywhere for a new user, what exactly is its purpose? rday This allows you to specify a build directory that lives elsewhere on your filesystem, rather than in poky/build. This is handy in case you want to keep the build system source tree pristine. Simply source the build init script with the desired build directory as an argument. I'm quite sure we have this documented, although BDIR isn't explicitly mentioned. Scott -- Scott Garman Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project Intel Open Source Technology Center ___ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
Re: [yocto] What's the purpose of BDIR in oe-buildenv-internal?
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Scott Garman wrote: On 10/27/2011 01:27 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: prepping to give a yocto talk to my local (ottawa) LUG next week, and was reviewing the logic of the setup starting with oe-init-build-env, and noticed in scripts/oe-buildenv-internal a test of the variable BDIR for the name of the build directory. but there's no mention of that variable in the calling oe-init-build-env, and i see no mention of it in the intro-level docs. clearly, one could use that shell env variable if one wanted to name the build directory to be used, but given that there's absolutely no explanation of it anywhere for a new user, what exactly is its purpose? This allows you to specify a build directory that lives elsewhere on your filesystem, rather than in poky/build. This is handy in case you want to keep the build system source tree pristine. Simply source the build init script with the desired build directory as an argument. I'm quite sure we have this documented, although BDIR isn't explicitly mentioned. that's the point i was raising -- that variable's value is obvious, it's just not described anywhere i noticed. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ___ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
