[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 00/10] Hob - BitBake GUI

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 23:02 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote:
> Of course, before sending this pull request I ran some final tests and
> encountered a significant problem with the implementation approach.
> Images are built by first using the buildTargets command to build all of the
> target dependencies then creating a recipe file and using the buildFile
> command to handle the build.
> The problem is that if you have a clean build directory, perfectly reasonable
> with such a tool, the buildFile command does not handle the native
> dependencies added by the image class.
> 
> The alternative I have is to save the image files somewhere within BBPATH,
> and perhaps suggest the user create a "workspace" layer, and build them with
> buildTargets. I didn't do this because I'd rather not pollute the users file
> system without good cause. It may be the only tenable approach though.
> 
> Any suggestions here?

I think you should be able to modify the base configuration data and
just add a local directory that the image creator uses to BBPATH
yourself?

That way you should always be able to use buildTargets...

Cheers,

Richard