[yocto] Documenting YP Development Environment in more detail - user configuration

[Philip Balister]

On 06/24/2013 11:08 AM, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
> My figure is for Yocto Project documentation so I am going to show that oe-init-build-env gets information from meta-yocto.  I understand that OE-Core sample files are in "meta".  There is a single oe-init-build-env script and it looks in one of two places.

Actually, the script is in two places, the root level of a poky checkout
and in the oe-core directory.

Explaining how poky is built up from oe-core + meta-yocto +
meta-yocto-bsp + some other stuff would be really helpful in reducing
confusion over what all the pieces are and where they come from.

Philip

> 
> Scott
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Burton, Ross [mailto:ross.burton at intel.com]
>> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 7:57 AM
>> To: Robert P. J. Day
>> Cc: Rifenbark, Scott M; yocto at yoctoproject.org
>> Subject: Re: [yocto] Documenting YP Development Environment in more
>> detail - user configuration
>>
>> On 24 June 2013 15:47, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I was trying to convey here is that oe-init-build-env draws on
>>>> some files in the meta-yocto layer.  The script oe-init-build-env is
>>>> in the poky repository (or refered to as "Source Directory" in the
>>>> documentation).  The sample files are in the meta-yocto layer.  I
>>>> thought the meta-yocto layer was needed... maybe I am wrong.  Can I
>>>> get more clarification on this?
>>>
>>>   i regularly build images without any "*yocto*"-named layer, unless
>>> i'm misunderstanding the issue here.
>>
>> meta-yocto is what makes Poky Poky, otherwise it would be just oe-core
>> + bitbake.  oe-init-build-env looks for sample files in $TEMPLATECONF,
>> which is one of the things that get munged as
>> bitbake+oe-core+meta-yocto becomes poky.
>>
>> Ross
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