[yocto] Trying to build a non-autotools package that contains only a lib. Getting empty archive - package is not generated

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Brian Hutchinson <b.hutchman at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> do_install is the task that installs. If your makefile has an install
>> target, you’d define a do_install that runs it. But not all makefiles
>> provide an equivalent to automake’s DESTDIR, which is why we don’t provide
>> a do_install for non-autotools make-based buildsystems. Either manually
>> install the library where it belongs in your do_install, e.g. with the
>> ‘install’ or ‘cp’ commands, or define one which runs the appropriate make
>> command to install the files into ${D}.
>>  --
>>
>> Thanks Chris.
>
> I do have a do_install that is copying stuff to ${D}/usr/lib which puts
> things in my sysroot ... but what target do I use to get stuff into the
> package which is used by my IMAGE_INSTALL line?  When I tar tvf my
> core-image.tar and grep for my .so it currently isn't there ... but it and
> the headers are in the sysroot.
>

do_install. The contents of ${D} are where the FILES globs are matched. We
don’t include the raw libfoo.so, since that’s supposed to be a symlink. If
your lib is missing an SONAME, it’d be named incorrectly and be missing a
symlink, and the lib would end up in the -dev package instead of the main
package.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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