[yocto] overwriting do_install causes cmake install not executed

[Burton, Ross]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 16:03, Tomasz Michalski <tmichalski23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have recipe componentX.bb which refer to some C++ repository. In C++ repository I have in main CMakeList.txt:
>
> install(PROGRAMS ./script/start.sh DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_COMPONENTXDIR}/init.d)
> install(PROGRAMS ./script/functions.sh DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR})
>
> When I add to componentX.bb my own implementation of do_install() then start.sh and function.sh script is not installed from CMakeList.txt!
> How to tell bitbake in do_install() body to installl this what is in CMakeList.txt and moreover something more? Using do_install_append() is not a solution for my case because do_install_append() cannot be overwritten in another meta-layer, for example in componentX.bbappend. So this must be do_install() function.

By writing your own do_install you're replacing the cmake class's
do_install which is why it doesn't install those files.

>From inside your own do_install() you can call the cmake class
do_install directly: it's called cmake_do_install.

Ross