From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B015CE013E8 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 03:26:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 25 Jun 2013 03:26:21 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,935,1363158000"; d="scan'208";a="359185572" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.122.97]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 25 Jun 2013 03:26:20 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: "Paul D. DeRocco" Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:26:19 +0100 Message-ID: <62373316.pOpgFtACv5@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.10.3 (Linux/3.8.0-25-generic; KDE/4.10.3; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1577969.2xYx7K97a2@helios> References: <07EC680C643544CEB3DB605D0478EB01@PAULD> <1577969.2xYx7K97a2@helios> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: The simplest possible recipe X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:26:24 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Tuesday 25 June 2013 11:17:47 Paul Eggleton wrote: > > then the sample compile recipe sets S to ${WORKDIR}. Is that what one does > > when one doesn't need to have a bunch of versioned subdirectories under > > ${WORKDIR}? (I'm not sure why one would ever want that, or why that would > > be the default.) > > If you know you're not going to unpack an archive into a subdirectory, and > for the single C file you aren't, then S can be set to ${WORKDIR} because > that's where the C file will be copied to. Or I should say, not just a C file as in the example but any kind of file that isn't being unpacked. -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre