[yocto] What is the best practice for customizing libraries included in yocto distribution?

[Nicolas Dechesne]

Frederico,

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Federico Vitali <fede.vitali at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Nicholas and Gary! I'm quite experienced in linux embedded
> developement, but I'm new to yocto / openembedded.
> Nicolas, can you please explain me how to use my sources separate from OE
> build dir tree and still using oe built system?
> Do I have to edit the sources directly in builddir/tmp/work/etcetera or can
> I keep it separate?

Please have a look at

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#ref-classes-externalsrc
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.5.1/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#building-software-from-an-external-source

let us know if you have additional questions