Thank you! I've been using externalsrc for a few days now and have a follow on question.
It appears that bitbake's state information for the various recipes doesn't react to changes in source files in an external source. IOW, when I change a file in my external folder I need to perform 3 steps to create a new file system that reflects the change: bitbake <component> -c clean bitbake <component> bitbake <image> Is it possible to ask bitbake to be more thorough about detecting file changes in external sources and rebuild the affected component automatically? Thanks, Brad ________________________________________ From: Paul Eggleton [paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 2:55 AM To: Brad Litterell Cc: Chris Larson; yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [yocto] Bitbake on live (uncommitted) code On Thursday 12 September 2013 17:23:53 Chris Larson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Brad Litterell <b...@evidence.com> wrote: > > I've grown to really appreciate bitbake for compiling code from a myriad > > of sources, however, what is the recommended course for source I am > > currently doing live development on? My code base lives in a couple of > > git > > repos that do NOT map one-to-one with recipes and I don't really want to > > store the source mixed in with the recipe meta data anyway, nor do I want > > to be forced to commit it to git just to do a build. > > > > Currently I run a pre-bitbake script that creates a tarball out of the > > > > source, but that is easy to forget and makes building a new image a two > > step proces. Since it is a build step I'd like it to be done by bitbake. > > > > Is there a recommended way to go about this? > > See externalsrc.bbclass. Also the manual section that talks about using it: http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#building-software-from-an-external-source Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
