[yocto] ${libdir} usage
Jean-Charles JC Verdié
jc at vtkloud.com
Thu Oct 10 06:22:46 PDT 2013
On 10Oct 2013, at 12:01 PM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Jay,
>
> On Wednesday 02 October 2013 00:02:11 JC wrote:
>> I'm currently putting together a bunch of recipes to install some cpan
>> modules. I had some complaints by bitbake about files being installed
>> but not shipped.
>>
>> I figured that I need to populate FILES_{PN} but I'm not clear about
>> what I should do with it: use ${libdir}, use "usr/*" ? Knowing that my
>> image(s) directories mostly contain usr/lib/perl/* and sometimes usr/bin/*
>
> Ultimately it depends on how those files have ended up there. If files have been
> installed in in /usr/lib because they've been installed in ${libdir} (this is
> the default for all autotooled recipes), then you should also use ${libdir} to
> match in FILES in case that value changes - some distros do this to flatten out
> /usr altogether for example.
>
Thanks !
Actually, I made a mistake and need to install those pm files in /lib not /usr/lib. cpan (instead of cpan-build) did everything ok :)
Regards
Jay
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> --
>
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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