[yocto] understanding what's in an image

[Jim Abernathy]

On 01/09/2012 09:07 PM, Christopher Larson wrote:
> Read layer.conf in each layer. See the BBFILES variable.
> -- 
> 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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the layer.conf in meta/conf includes and covers  all .bb files under it 
like receipe-sato, which includes web-webkit.  So does this say that the 
web-webkit get's built by bitbake, but the images does not contain 
web-webkit until you put in the IMAGE_INSTALL += "web-webit"???

Jim A


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