[yocto] basic recipe building - iperf

[Khem Raj]

On Monday, June 18, 2012, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:29 PM, jfabernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:
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>> 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
>>
> As expected the new image booted and ran the iperf 2.0.5 just fine.  Are
there any plans to add this tool to the Yocto project??
>

You could have just looked into meta-oe/recipes-benchmarks
> Jim A
>
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