[yocto] creating images which include actively developed applications

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday 01 May 2015 16:25:38 Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On 04/22/15 13:58, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > 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#buildi
> > ng-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.ht
> ml

Well, I would have, except this doesn't quite seem like the same case as 
devtool is designed for (which is "temporary" switching of the source for 
development - AIUI Brian was looking for something more permanent.)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre