[yocto] Creating a recipe to create /usr/local

[Chan Kit Yu]

Hi Chris,

Thank you very much :-)
But it was no good. I still get the same error even with the "install" use.

Here I attach the full recipe just in case I did wrong somewhere:

SUMMARY = "Create /usr/local"
SECTION = "meta-networking"
LICENSE = "MIT"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
"file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302"
#INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "installed-vs-shipped"

do_install(){
        install -d  ${D}${prefix}/local/
}

Chan Kit



On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Chris Tapp <opensource at keylevel.com> wrote:
>
> On 27 Nov 2014, at 07:09, Chan Kit Yu <yuchankit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm not sure if emailing this is the most appropriate way and I
>> apologize in advance if that's not.
>>
>> I have some scripts that require /usr/local to exist in Yocto and
>> therefore I need to a recipe to create /usr/local directory. I tried
>> to accomplish this with a simple recipe but that proved futile.
>>
>> Although bitbaking that particular recipe was fine, trying to include
>> that package in local.conf resulted errors and those errors are
>> gibberish (it listed all the packages inside the image that I was
>> trying to comple) . Here's my simple stupid recipe:
>>
>> SUMMARY= "...."
>> LICENSE = "something...."
>> ...
>> ...
>> INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "installed-vs-shipped"
>>
>> do_install(){
>>     mkdir -p ${D}/usr/local
>> }
>
> You need to use 'install' rather than mkdir
>
>
>> Is there a better way (or preferably the canonical way) to do this?
>
> Yes, there are some definitions you can use. In your case it would be:
>
>    # Install the 'local' directory to make sure it exists
>    install -d ${D}${prefix}/local
>
>    # Install a file to this location
>    install -f ${WORKDIR}/myfile ${D}${prefix}/local
>
> The available definitions are shown at the top of meta/conf/bitbake.conf in your Poky installation.
>
> --
>
> Chris Tapp
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> www.keylevel.com
>
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