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Subject: Re: Bitbake on live (uncommitted) code
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On Thursday 12 September 2013 17:23:53 Chris Larson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Brad Litterell <brad@evidence.com> wrote:
> > I've grown to really appreciate bitbake for compiling code from a myriad
> > of sources, however, what is the recommended course for source I am
> > currently doing live development on?  My code base lives in a couple of
> > git
> > repos that do NOT map one-to-one with recipes and I don't really want to
> > store the source mixed in with the recipe meta data anyway, nor do I want
> > to be forced to commit it to git just to do a build.
> > 
> >  Currently I run a pre-bitbake script that creates a tarball out of the
> > 
> > source, but that is easy to forget and makes building a new image a two
> > step proces.  Since it is a build step I'd like it to be done by bitbake.
> > 
> >  Is there a recommended way to go about this?
> 
> See externalsrc.bbclass.

Also the manual section that talks about using it:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#building-software-from-an-external-source

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre