Re: [OE-core] questions about WORKDIR and S usage and files/ stuff

2015-02-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Sunday 22 February 2015 15:25:07 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=4eb3db9a2ca8eaff64b64 > > > b8f56dac25d4734571c > > > > > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/

Re: [OE-core] questions about WORKDIR and S usage and files/ stuff

2015-02-23 Thread Paul Eggleton
On Sunday 22 February 2015 15:25:07 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Richard Purdie wrote: > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=4eb3db9a2ca8eaff64b64 > > b8f56dac25d4734571c > > > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=cf72ede74d35746a10d07 > > 089

Re: [OE-core] questions about WORKDIR and S usage and files/ stuff

2015-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Richard Purdie wrote: > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=4eb3db9a2ca8eaff64b64b8f56dac25d4734571c > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=cf72ede74d35746a10d0708942287548f9c72f30 > > and some of the surrounding patches. I'd assumed base-fil

Re: [OE-core] questions about WORKDIR and S usage and files/ stuff

2015-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Richard Purdie wrote: > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=4eb3db9a2ca8eaff64b64b8f56dac25d4734571c > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=cf72ede74d35746a10d0708942287548f9c72f30 > > and some of the surrounding patches. I'd assumed base-fil

Re: [OE-core] questions about WORKDIR and S usage and files/ stuff

2015-02-22 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 03:35 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2015, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 05:09 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > ... snip ... > > > > sticking with those non-patch files, it makes sense that all of > > > them should be processed relat

Re: [OE-core] questions about WORKDIR and S usage and files/ stuff

2015-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 21 Feb 2015, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 05:09 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... > > sticking with those non-patch files, it makes sense that all of > > them should be processed relative to their location in ${WORKDIR} > > (which is where they've all been co

Re: [OE-core] questions about WORKDIR and S usage and files/ stuff

2015-02-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 21 Feb 2015, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 05:09 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > p.s. i also notice that a small number of OE recipes contain the > > apparently redundant setting: > > > > $ grep -r "^S = \"\${WORKDIR}/\${BP}\"" * > > meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinf

Re: [OE-core] questions about WORKDIR and S usage and files/ stuff

2015-02-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'll finalize all this a bit at a time ... thanks for your time in clearing all this up. On Sat, 21 Feb 2015, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 05:09 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > which makes sense since gcc is a special case -- in short, for any > > kind of "normal" recipe, t

Re: [OE-core] questions about WORKDIR and S usage and files/ stuff

2015-02-21 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 05:09 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > which makes sense since gcc is a special case -- in short, for any > kind of "normal" recipe, there is no compelling reason to ever mess > with the WORKDIR variable, is there? You'd probably break things if you did. > next, S, and its

[OE-core] questions about WORKDIR and S usage and files/ stuff

2015-02-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
some admittedly simple questions about the WORKDIR layout to make sure i understand it *completely* as the basis for further questions. (if all of this is documented in an OE or YP manual somewhere, that'd be great.) from bitbake.conf, i can see the default setting for a recipe's WORKDIR: BA