Best practice for building a large amount of source files

Best practice for building a large amount of source files

[Michael Habibi]

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If I have some source I want to bring into my layer, for example:

Recipe dir:
meta-mylayer/recipes-management/myapplication/myapplication_1.0/<tons of
source files>

What is the best option for adding all of these and compiling? As far as I
know, you have to do one of the following:

1) Use a fetch that fetches a tarball with all your source, or a repo with
all of your source
2) Use a million-line long SRC_URI assignment to include every file that
your application uses.

Is there a third (or fourth) option that I may have missed?

Michael

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Re: Best practice for building a large amount of source files

[Jeremy A. Puhlman]

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On 12/10/2015 1:16 PM, Michael Habibi wrote:
> If I have some source I want to bring into my layer, for example:
>
> Recipe dir:
> meta-mylayer/recipes-management/myapplication/myapplication_1.0/<tons 
> of source files>
>
> What is the best option for adding all of these and compiling? As far 
> as I know, you have to do one of the following:
>
> 1) Use a fetch that fetches a tarball with all your source, or a repo 
> with all of your source
> 2) Use a million-line long SRC_URI assignment to include every file 
> that your application uses.
>
> Is there a third (or fourth) option that I may have missed?
Not necessarily best practice, but it is something that bitbake has 
supported.

If you create a directory under myapplication_1.0 that is unique and not 
an override, you can specify the directory name
as the SRC_URI and bitbake will pull the directory and its contents in.

Something like 
meta-mylayer/recipes-management/myapplication/myapplication_1.0/mysources/<tons 
of source files>

and SRC_URI file://mysources

It should work.

Something like the following:

 > find recipes/
recipes/
recipes/myapp
recipes/myapp/files
recipes/myapp/files/mysources
recipes/myapp/files/mysources/Makefile
recipes/myapp/myapp_1.0.bb
 > cat recipes/myapp/myapp_1.0.bb
LICENSE="MIT"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = 
"file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"

SRC_URI = "file://mysources"

S="${WORKDIR}/mysources"

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> Michael
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-- 
Jeremy A. Puhlman
jpuhlman@mvista.com


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Re: Best practice for building a large amount of source files

[Burton, Ross]

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On 10 December 2015 at 21:16, Michael Habibi <mikehabibi@gmail.com> wrote:

> What is the best option for adding all of these and compiling? As far as I
> know, you have to do one of the following:
>
> 1) Use a fetch that fetches a tarball with all your source, or a repo with
> all of your source
> 2) Use a million-line long SRC_URI assignment to include every file that
> your application uses.
>
> Is there a third (or fourth) option that I may have missed?
>

(1) is definitely my recommendation, separate the application development
from the recipe to build the application.

Ross

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Re: Best practice for building a large amount of source files

[Michael Habibi]

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Ross, I will likely try a different workflow if we enter production
environment with yocto. Right now I am just doing yocto integration testing
myself, and want to simplify things as much as possible for myself :)

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com> wrote:

>
> On 10 December 2015 at 21:16, Michael Habibi <mikehabibi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What is the best option for adding all of these and compiling? As far as
>> I know, you have to do one of the following:
>>
>> 1) Use a fetch that fetches a tarball with all your source, or a repo
>> with all of your source
>> 2) Use a million-line long SRC_URI assignment to include every file that
>> your application uses.
>>
>> Is there a third (or fourth) option that I may have missed?
>>
>
> (1) is definitely my recommendation, separate the application development
> from the recipe to build the application.
>
> Ross
>

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Re: Best practice for building a large amount of source files

[Burton, Ross]

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On 10 December 2015 at 22:07, Michael Habibi <mikehabibi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ross, I will likely try a different workflow if we enter production
> environment with yocto. Right now I am just doing yocto integration testing
> myself, and want to simplify things as much as possible for myself :)
>

A simply workflow would be a local git repo with all the sources in,  and
then a recipe with a git SRC_URI pointing at the local directory.

Ross

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