I would also like to add that bitbaking that recipe alone was fine but bitbaking my image to include that package failed.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Chan Kit Yu <yuchan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Thank you very much :-) > But it was no good. I still get the same error even with the "install" use. > > Here I attach the full recipe just in case I did wrong somewhere: > > SUMMARY = "Create /usr/local" > SECTION = "meta-networking" > LICENSE = "MIT" > LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = > "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302" > #INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "installed-vs-shipped" > > do_install(){ > install -d ${D}${prefix}/local/ > } > > Chan Kit > > > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Chris Tapp <opensou...@keylevel.com> wrote: >> >> On 27 Nov 2014, at 07:09, Chan Kit Yu <yuchan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm not sure if emailing this is the most appropriate way and I >>> apologize in advance if that's not. >>> >>> I have some scripts that require /usr/local to exist in Yocto and >>> therefore I need to a recipe to create /usr/local directory. I tried >>> to accomplish this with a simple recipe but that proved futile. >>> >>> Although bitbaking that particular recipe was fine, trying to include >>> that package in local.conf resulted errors and those errors are >>> gibberish (it listed all the packages inside the image that I was >>> trying to comple) . Here's my simple stupid recipe: >>> >>> SUMMARY= "...." >>> LICENSE = "something...." >>> ... >>> ... >>> INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "installed-vs-shipped" >>> >>> do_install(){ >>> mkdir -p ${D}/usr/local >>> } >> >> You need to use 'install' rather than mkdir >> >> >>> Is there a better way (or preferably the canonical way) to do this? >> >> Yes, there are some definitions you can use. In your case it would be: >> >> # Install the 'local' directory to make sure it exists >> install -d ${D}${prefix}/local >> >> # Install a file to this location >> install -f ${WORKDIR}/myfile ${D}${prefix}/local >> >> The available definitions are shown at the top of meta/conf/bitbake.conf in >> your Poky installation. >> >> -- >> >> Chris Tapp >> opensou...@keylevel.com >> www.keylevel.com >> >> ---- >> You can tell you're getting older when your car insurance gets real cheap! >> -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto