[yocto] understanding what's in an image

Christopher Larson kergoth at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 18:07:25 PST 2012


Read layer.conf in each layer. See the BBFILES variable.
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Christopher Larson


On Monday, January 9, 2012 at 5:51 PM, James Abernathy wrote:

> I'm trying to understand how bitbake parses the poky directory tree a little better. 
> 
> The best I can figure all .bb files are NOT included. Just some of them are. I'm guessing that the .bb in the meta/recipe-sato named core-image-sato.bb is the one that is used to start the parsing if bitbake core-image-sato is executed.
> I originally thought all subdirectories of a path included in BBLAYER were parsed looking for .bb files, but now I know that is not true, but not sure why.
> 
> For example, it does not appear that webkit is included in the core-image-sato even though the recipe-sato directory includes the webkit subdirectory with it's recipe. What would be the proper way of adding the webkit to core-image-sato??
> 
> Jim A
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