[bitbake-devel] How to identify WORKDIR?

[Kang Kai]

On 2012年03月15日 14:55, Kang Kai wrote:
> On 2012年03月14日 17:42, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> 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
And the result is something like that:
WORKDIR="/mnt/sda10/poky-all-platform/build-qemux86_64/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/bblayers-1.0-r0"

Is it ok to remove 2 items seperated by slash at the end of string? 
Right now is:
"/mnt/sda10/poky-all-platform/build-qemux86_64/tmp/work/"

Regards,
Kai

>
> If get WORKDIR in this way, I'll update the script with no argument 
> because the argument is useless to identify the WORKDIR.
>
> Regards,
> Kai
>>
>> since you already call into bitbake in the script in question.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>
>
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