On 28 Nov 2014, at 01:55, Chan Kit Yu <yuchan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would also like to add that bitbaking that recipe alone was fine but
> bitbaking my image to include that package failed.
I'm not sure what's going on - can you post the error message (or at least the
relevant part)?
> 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
>>>
>>> ----
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>>>
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