[yocto] basic recipe building - iperf

[jfabernathy]

On 06/18/2012 05:21 PM, Marc Ferland wrote:
> jfabernathy<jfabernathy at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>>     I needed to do some network performance testing on a Crownbay board and
>>     needed iperf in that environment.  Since I had the core-image-sato-sdk
>>     image created, I just booted that and took the tarball from Sourceforge
>>     and built it  per the readme file instructions:
>>     ./configure
>>     make
>>     make install
>>     After I completed my test, I thought about why not put that in my list
>>     of personal recipes.  I found the previous version of iperf in the
>>     openembedded collection of benchmark recipes and just copied it over.
>>     It built and worked fine.  There were a lot of items in the .bb that I
>>     didn't understand, so I thought for fun I'd just try to build a recipe
>>     for iperf 2.0.5 and see what happened.  My recipe is simple, mostly
>>     taken from the openembedded 2.0.4 version had stripped down:
> Hi JF,
>
> I add the same problem you had with the man page stuff, try this patch.
>
> Marc
thanks, that patch fixed it from a build point of view. now I'll build 
the image again and see what happens on the hardware.

Jim A