[bitbake-devel] How to identify WORKDIR?

Martin Jansa martin.jansa at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 08:03:10 UTC 2012


On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:40:04PM +0800, Kang Kai wrote:
> 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/"

Aren't you looking for ^TMPDIR ?

> 
> 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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