On Friday 01 May 2015 16:25:38 Trevor Woerner wrote: > On 04/22/15 13:58, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 April 2015 15:32:06 Brian Karcz wrote: > >> 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#buildi > > ng-software-from-an-external-source > > Paul, I'm surprised you suggested externalsrc instead of just mentioning > devtool right from the start (doubly-surprised since you're the person > who wrote devtool!). Using devtool the "administration" (of creating a > recipe, etc) is done for you, no? > > http://twoerner.blogspot.ca/2015/01/the-yocto-project-introducing-devtool.ht > ml
Well, I would have, except this doesn't quite seem like the same case as devtool is designed for (which is "temporary" switching of the source for development - AIUI Brian was looking for something more permanent.) Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto