Re: What is the best practice for customizing libraries included in yocto distribution?

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2014-03-14 09:45, Federico Vitali wrote:
> It worked! Thank you so much! Now I have to go out, I have only to understand
> a couple of things...
> 
> 1. how to make bitbake understand that I've only changed one or more file, now I have
> to do bitbake -c clean gst-plugins-base && bitbake gst-plugins-base

If you've only changed a file or two, try this instead:
  $ bitbake gst-plugins-base -C compile

If you made a change that requires rerunning the 'configure' step,
just use that instead of 'compile'.

> 2. how to debug via Eclipse.
> 
> Thank you again!
> 
> 
> Federico
> 
> 
> 
> 2014-03-14 11:18 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org <mailto:nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org>>:
> 
>     Frederico,
> 
>     On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Federico Vitali <fede.vitali@gmail.com <mailto:fede.vitali@gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Thank you Nicholas and Gary! I'm quite experienced in linux embedded
>     > developement, but I'm new to yocto / openembedded.
>     > Nicolas, can you please explain me how to use my sources separate from OE
>     > build dir tree and still using oe built system?
>     > Do I have to edit the sources directly in builddir/tmp/work/etcetera or can
>     > I keep it separate?
> 
>     Please have a look at
> 
>     http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#ref-classes-externalsrc
>     http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.5.1/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#building-software-from-an-external-source
> 
>     let us know if you have additional questions
> 
> 

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