On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Paul Eggleton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 12 September 2013 17:23:53 Chris Larson wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Brad Litterell <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I've grown to really appreciate bitbake for compiling code from a myriad >> > of sources, however, what is the recommended course for source I am >> > currently doing live development on? My code base lives in a couple of >> > git >> > repos that do NOT map one-to-one with recipes and I don't really want to >> > store the source mixed in with the recipe meta data anyway, nor do I want >> > to be forced to commit it to git just to do a build. >> > >> > Currently I run a pre-bitbake script that creates a tarball out of the >> > >> > source, but that is easy to forget and makes building a new image a two >> > step proces. Since it is a build step I'd like it to be done by bitbake. >> > >> > Is there a recommended way to go about this? >> >> See externalsrc.bbclass. > > Also the manual section that talks about using it: > > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#building-software-from-an-external-source > Does this in any way replace the use of the SDK toolchain? Since that is what I would be using (and am using) for external development. We only use bitbake for the integration stages (pkg upgrades/rootfs/SDK builds etc.). After a package works and is in some sort of ready state we add it to a git repo and write a recipe for it. Maybe that is an alternative too?
Thanks. Hans > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > > Paul Eggleton > Intel Open Source Technology Centre > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
