[yocto] Working with symbolic links in recipes?

In short, I'd like to have my recipe know the name of a file that is a symbolic link, as in "readlink" and the linux prompt.- preferably before populating SRC_URI, but this is not working (so I guess random shell scripts are not doable in recipes): LINK_TARGET=`readlink -f ${LATEST_VER}` SRC_URI =

Re: [yocto] Syntax for zero-padding a number in a recipe?

[Sending again because I initially replied to Claudius only, and not mailing list] I found using back-ticks with printf also works in a recipe: NUMBER = "1" NUMBER_PADDED="FOO_`printf "02d" ${NUMBER}`_MOARFOO" On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:48 PM Claudius Heine w

Re: [yocto] Creating a file within a recipe

That seems to work. Thanks! On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 3:53 PM Burton, Ross wrote: > The bash parser does have some bugs, and I think you just found one. > Probably easier to have a template on disk in SRC_URI, and sed in the > value you want. > > Ross > > On Fri, 28 Jun

[yocto] Creating a file within a recipe

I'd like to be able to create a file using the cat command in a recipe. The sub-goal is to have the file created somewhere I can actually find it: do_create_tebf0808() { cat > tebf0808.bif <-- ___ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org

[yocto] Syntax for zero-padding a number in a recipe?

Is there such a thing as zero padding a number in a recipe (or vice versa? I'd be just as happy starting with a zero-padded number, and converting it to non-zero-padded. The crux of the dilemma is that I must have zero-padding for file-naming, but I CAN'T have zero padding in these numbers when I