[yocto] basic recipe building - iperf

[James Abernathy]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Monday, June 18, 2012, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:29 PM, jfabernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
> >

You must have missed the earlier discussion.  I first got the iperf 2.0.4
from meta-oe, but wanted 2.0.5, so I just added it to my private collection
of apps.

Jim A
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