[yocto] [YOCTO]: About adding documentation in final SDK image

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Preeti,

On Thursday 19 March 2015 21:37:31 Preeti P wrote:
> I am working on adding the documents in to my SDK image.
> Basically, I want to have the man and info documentation for the tool-chain
> item in my SDK image.
> 
> As per my understanding, the install package for every recipe gets split
> into different packages and finally shipped in to the SDK image.
> 
> To add the documents in my SDK image, I tried to add the '-doc' support in
> 'PACKAGES' variable but still the documentation related files are not there
> in the final image.
> 
> I even tried by adding below lines in to the do_install function in my
> recipe but my final image does not have those files:
> 
> do_install {
> 
>                 install -d ${D}${includedir}${doc}
> 
>                 install -m 644 ${S}/doc/*.info ${D}${includedir}${doc}
> 
> }
> 
> Can anyone provide me inputs on how to add the documentation for packages
> in to the final SDK image?

When you say "SDK image" I guess you just mean SDK? If so, I think you'd just 
need to add "doc-pkgs" to SDKIMAGE_FEATURES. Since SDKIMAGE_FEATURES is set 
with ??= i.e. a soft default, you would need to set the complete value i.e.:

SDKIMAGE_FEATURES = "dev-pkgs dbg-pkgs doc-pkgs"

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre