[yocto] how to use native executable from one recipe during install in another recipe

[Khem Raj]

On Apr 11, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Michael Fainstein <Michael.Fainstein at ecitele.com> wrote:

> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Bénard [mailto:eric at eukrea.com]
>> Sent: יום ה 11 אפריל 2013 15:53
>> To: Michael Fainstein
>> Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
>> Subject: Re: [yocto] how to use native executable from one recipe during
>> install in another recipe
>> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> Le Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:58:50 +0000,
>> Michael Fainstein <Michael.Fainstein at ecitele.com> a écrit :
>>> I have one recipe that inherits "native", builds native executable and
>> installs it in tmp/work/x86_64-linux/foo-native-1.00-r0/image/sbin/foo
>>> 
>> do you have BBCLASSEXTEND = "native" in this recipe ?
>> 
>> In the end, isn't the native binary installed in :
>> sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/sbin/ ?
>> 
>>> Another recipe depends on first one and needs to execute foo in its
>> do_install in order to install files in tmp/work/ppce500v2-fsl-linux-
>> gnuspe/foo-1.00-r0/image/etc/
>>> 
>>> I can't find a way to do it. Any suggestions? How can I install foo in
>> first recipe to some common location that 2nd recipe can use? Is there such
>> standard location?
>>> 
>> You should then be able to call it in the other recipe as IIRC this path
>> is in $PATH (and your recipe should depend on foo-native)
>> 
>> Eric
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> I had a problem with do_populate_sysroot in native recipe due to bad generated path for do_populate_sysroot[sstate-inputdirs]. I overrode it in my recipe with 
> do_populate_sysroot[sstate-inputdirs] = "${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}" and this recipe was build  successfully. However, foo was not installed in sysroots/x86_64-linux.
> I changed DESTDIR in 'make install' from ${D} to ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR} and finally got foo were I need it.
> 

I don't think installing into final sys root directly is a good idea. It should still do the staged install and then let populate_ssyroot do the step of installing
it to final sys root.

> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> 
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