Hi Brian, On Wednesday 22 April 2015 15:32:06 Brian Karcz wrote: > I'm attempting to create a recipe for some custom applications that we want > to include in our target image. The applications are actively developed and > it's often desired to generate images without versioning the application > code. It's also desired to be able to work in a source tree that is > external to the build tree. I'm trying to determine if Yocto has a > mechanism similar to the "source directory override" in Buildroot that > allows you to point a package/recipe at an external directory to locate the > source code. > > We have been using Poky for a couple years, but so far, have had to build > the applications externally and use some magic in the image recipes to > bring in the pre-built executables explicitly. We accomplished this by > using some relative pathing in the SRC_URI and then placing the files in > the rootfs by adding some commands to the image preprocess command. > > Is there a way to create a recipe to build actively developed code located > in an external source directory? Basically skip the fetch and unpack steps > and always execute the compile and populate steps each time and image is > built?
Indeed there is: 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
