On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 9:28 AM Simon Chamlian <simon.chaml...@mpbc.ca> wrote: > > I am getting the following error using devtool: > > $ devtool add help > ERROR: Layer directory '/home/jay/sources/poky/meta' does not exist! Please > check BBLAYERS in /home/jay/build/conf/bblayers.conf > > $ whereis devtool > devtool: /opt/PHYTEC_BSPs/yocto_imx7/sources/poky/scripts/devtool > > The paths are completely wrong. > > Any hints?
may be there are two different workspaces being mixed here. Probably you should start a fresh shell and setup environment to run bitbake and then be able to run devtool in that shell as well. > > Thanks, > S > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 4:27 AM, ChenQi <qi.c...@windriver.com> wrote: >> >> On 07/10/2018 02:18 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote: >>> >>> On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 3:32:56 AM CEST ChenQi wrote: >>>> >>>> I usually use the following steps when I need to modify source for some >>>> purpose. >>>> >>>> 1. bitbake A (or at least bitbake A -c configure) >>>> *2. cd tmp/work/xxxxx/A/<source dir>** >>>> **3. make the modification* >>>> 4. bitbake A -c compile -f >>>> 5. bitbake A >>>> >>>> If you find the modification useful, make a patch from it. >>> >>> This is the old way of doing it which can under some circumstances result in >>> you losing your changes to the source tree, since the sources under >>> tmp/work/ >>> are only ever intended to be there temporarily. Devtool (as recommend by >>> others on this thread) is designed to enable this workflow in a much safer >>> manner. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Paul >>> >> Thanks Paul. I'll turn to use devtool. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Chen Qi >> > > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto