[yocto] creating images which include actively developed applications

[Trevor Woerner]

On 04/22/15 13:58, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> On Wednesday 22 April 2015 15:32:06 Brian Karcz wrote:
>> Is there a way to create a recipe to build actively developed code located
>> in an external source directory? Basically skip the fetch and unpack steps
>> and always execute the compile and populate steps each time and image is
>> built?
> Indeed there is:
>
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#building-software-from-an-external-source
>

Paul, I'm surprised you suggested externalsrc instead of just mentioning
devtool right from the start (doubly-surprised since you're the person
who wrote devtool!). Using devtool the "administration" (of creating a
recipe, etc) is done for you, no?

http://twoerner.blogspot.ca/2015/01/the-yocto-project-introducing-devtool.html