On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 07:07 -0600, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote: > Hi , > > > > Although that sentence could be written differently, it is correct. > Step six of the example says “By default, the script creates the new > BSP Layer in the current working directory of the Source Directory, > which is poky in this case.” The clause at the end of the sentence is
Yes, it's ambiguous as to what 'which is poky' refers to. I think that just changing it to 'in the current working directory (poky/build in this case)' is most clear (your revision seems to still have some ambiguity, I think). Tom > tied to the “Source Directory”, which in fact is poky. I will > re-write that sentence though to remove any chance of confusion. You > can see the change at > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.7/bsp-guide/bsp-guide.html#creating-a-new-bsp-layer-using-the-yocto-bsp-script. > > > > Thanks, > > Scott > > > > From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org > [mailto:yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Biao > Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 8:35 PM > To: Zanussi, Tom > Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org > Subject: Re: [yocto] Running "yocto-bsp create .." in the source > directory(poky) brings up an error. "poky directory vs build > directory" > > > > > > At 2014-11-24 03:23:10, "Tom Zanussi" <tom.zanu...@intel.com> wrote: > >Hi, > > > >On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 22:55 +0800, Biao wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> I am doing excises following this section > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.7/bsp-guide/bsp-guide.html#creating-a-new-bsp-layer-using-the-yocto-bsp-script > >> 1.6.2. Creating a new BSP Layer Using the yocto-bsp Script > >> ... > >> $ yocto-bsp create myarm qemu > >> .... > >> By default, the script creates the new BSP Layer in the current > >> working directory of the Source Directory , which is poky in this > >> case. > >> .... > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To my understand, it means after "source oe-init-build-env mybuild", i > >> should change to the poky directory to run the "yocto-bsp create ..." > >> command, > > > >Yes, the documentation is misleading - yocto-bsp assumes you're in the > >build directory after you've sourced oe-init-build-env, and not the poky > >dir. > > > >Tom > > I see, thanks for you help, Tom. > > Jerry > > > >> however, i got an error > >> " Do you need a new machine branch for this BSP (the alternative is to > >> re-use an existing branch)? [y/n] [default: y] > >> The BBPATH variable is not set and bitbake did not find a > >> conf/bblayers.conf file in the expected location. > >> Maybe you accidentally invoked bitbake from the wrong directory? > >> Couldn't find BBLAYERS in bitbake -e output, exiting." > >> It seems it is asking me to run "yocto-bsp create ..." in the build > >> directory > >> > >> > >> Which one is correct? Do we have a wrong document? > >> > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Jerry > >> > >> > > > > -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto