On Jan 10, 2012, at 7:03 AM, Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2012-01-09 17:51, James Abernathy wrote: >> I'm trying to understand how bitbake parses the poky directory tree a little >> better. >> >> The best I can figure all .bb files are NOT included. Just some of them are. >> I'm guessing that the .bb in the meta/recipe-sato named core-image-sato.bb >> is the one that is used to start the parsing if bitbake core-image-sato is >> executed. >> I originally thought all subdirectories of a path included in BBLAYER were >> parsed looking for .bb files, but now I know that is not true, but not sure >> why. >> >> For example, it does not appear that webkit is included in the >> core-image-sato even though the recipe-sato directory includes the webkit >> subdirectory with it's recipe. What would be the proper way of adding the >> webkit to core-image-sato?? > > The 'webkit' is just a library used to build tools such as a > web browser. You might want to start with an application that > actually uses webkit, such as web-webkit. > > To build an image which includes web-webkit, add this line to > your local.conf file and rebuild the image: > IMAGE_INSTALL += "web-webkit" > > You can also build packages which are not installed into your > image by default and use a package manager (e.g. zypper) to > install the package later onto a running system. > This was very helpful. Before I got your email, I had gotten the advice to put the IMAGE_INSTALL += "web-webkit" into the core-image-sato.bb file. Both seem to work. Not sure which is the best approach. Maybe creating a .bbappend in my BSP??
So how do I know which applications are installed in an image? is there a how file of IMAGE_INSTALL statements? Jim A > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Gary Thomas | Consulting for the > MLB Associates | Embedded world > ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
