Re: How to identify WORKDIR?

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 17:01 +0800, Kang Kai wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I write a script to clean up WORKDIR that remove the obsoleted
> packages' build directories. 
> The script accept a argument as BUILDDIR and I use this clause to
> identify the WORKDIR:
> 
>      workdir = os.path.join(builddir, 'tmp/work')
> 
> Then validate the workdir exists or not. It works for me but hardcode
> here as Richard point out. 
> So is there  a better way to get the WORKDIR here? Thanks.

I was thinking of something like:

bitbake -e | grep ^WORKDIR

since you already call into bitbake in the script in question.

Cheers,

Richard