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