From: Cliff B. <cli...@gm...> - 2009-08-25 16:07:16
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:41 AM, InnDev<buc...@co...> wrote: > > Cliff, > The inherit autotools seems to work great on the compilation with no > configuration at all. But it tells me there is no do_install method in the > .bb file. So I added that back in. If you use autotools, executables should be installed in /usr/bin automatically without adding a custom do_install task. > Questions: > 1) Then I noticed that autotools doesn't seem to generate an > executable(.exe) file like gcc does. Therefore, when do_install wants to > put together a package it can't find myapp.exe. It appears my do_install is > not creating the duplicate source folder in the target folder. I'm not sure > if it's because it can't find the .exe or simply a auth/access issue. Any > ideas here? Try a simple example on a x86 linux PC to make sure you have autotools set up. If you look at my example on the BEC site, it will create an exe named "foo". > 2) I went through the autotools description on the BEC website. Do I need > to have the configure.ac and Makefile.am files in my build folder? yes. Test a native build on x86 first before worrying about OE. Cliff |