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Subject: Re: do_install fails to do a package for custom directory
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On 2015-02-08 06:25, Bipnesh, Abhinav (Abhinav) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to write a custom recipe for my make based project. So I am able to compile the project and generate the binary. Now when I am trying to package using do_install() I am
> not able to put the package in custom directory.
>
> So when I use *${D}${bindir} *it work perfectly fine and the package has those binary. But when I tried with *${D}/system/hello * it didn’t works. Below is the snapshot of the
> do_install ()
>
> do_install () {
>
>       cd ${WORKDIR}
>
>       # init script
>
>       install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
>
>       install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/sysconfig
>
>       install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/test/test ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/test
>
>       install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/test/test ${D}${sysconfdir}/sysconfig/test
>
>       # executable
>
>       install -d ${D}/system/hello
>
>       #install -d ${D}${bindir}
>
>       #install -m 755 ${S}/helloworl/hello ${D}${bindir}/hello çit works
>
>       install -m 755 ${S}/helloworld/hello ${D}/system/hello/hello çit doesn’t work
>
> }
>
> So any thoughts how to fix this issue.

What do you mean that it doesn't work?

Most likely is that the directory /system and it's contents
are not being packaged.  Try adding this line
   FILES_${PN} += "/system"

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