I am getting the following error using devtool: $ devtool add help ERROR: Layer directory '/home/jay/sources/poky/meta' does not exist! Please check BBLAYERS in /home/jay/build/conf/bblayers.conf
$ whereis devtool devtool: /opt/PHYTEC_BSPs/yocto_imx7/sources/poky/scripts/devtool The paths are completely wrong. Any hints? Thanks, S On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 4:27 AM, ChenQi <qi.c...@windriver.com> wrote: > On 07/10/2018 02:18 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 3:32:56 AM CEST ChenQi wrote: >> >>> I usually use the following steps when I need to modify source for some >>> purpose. >>> >>> 1. bitbake A (or at least bitbake A -c configure) >>> *2. cd tmp/work/xxxxx/A/<source dir>** >>> **3. make the modification* >>> 4. bitbake A -c compile -f >>> 5. bitbake A >>> >>> If you find the modification useful, make a patch from it. >>> >> This is the old way of doing it which can under some circumstances result >> in >> you losing your changes to the source tree, since the sources under >> tmp/work/ >> are only ever intended to be there temporarily. Devtool (as recommend by >> others on this thread) is designed to enable this workflow in a much safer >> manner. >> >> Cheers, >> Paul >> >> Thanks Paul. I'll turn to use devtool. > > Best Regards, > > Chen Qi > >
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