Hello,
I am currently starting to work with Yocto and I am having a bit of a hard time
to figure out how the two documented versions of WORKDIR come into existence.
The doc states:
"""
For packages that are not dependent on a particular machine, WORKDIR is defined
as follows:
${TMPDIR}/work/${PACKAGE_ARCH}-poky-${TARGET_OS}/${PN}/${PV}-${PR}
[...]
For packages that are dependent on a particular machine, WORKDIR is defined
slightly different:
${TMPDIR}/work/${MACHINE}-poky-${TARGET_OS}/${PN}/${PV}-${PR}
"""
Now I tried to figure out how a package becomes machine dependent, and I could
not find this.
After poking around in already existing layers and recipes, I think that the
doc is misleading.
It appears to me that only one version exists, which is:
${TMPDIR}/work/${PACKAGE_ARCH}-poky-${TARGET_OS}/${PN}/${PV}-${PR}
And in case a package is machine specific, one overrides the default
PACKAGE_ARCH with (the undocumented)
variable MACHINE_ARCH like this:
PACKAGE_ARCH="${MACHINE_ARCH}"
(where I believe that MACHINE_ARCH is equal to MACHINE??)
Which will then lead to a WORKDIR that looks like
${TMPDIR}/work/${MACHINE}-poky-${TARGET_OS}/${PN}/${PV}-${PR}
(but still is
${TMPDIR}/work/${PACKAGE_ARCH}-poky-${TARGET_OS}/${PN}/${PV}-${PR}).
(there are some bbclasses that do this, and there are some recipes that do it).
Being pretty new to Yocto, I have the feeling that I simply got it all wrong,
so before posting bugs or something, I'd wanted to know
if anybody could shed light on this.
thanks and best regards
Robert
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