[OE-core] How do we get programs into sysroots?

[Richard Purdie]

On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 13:45 -0700, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Joel A Fernandes <agnel.joel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > DESCRIPTION = "A tool to format SD Cards correctly"
> > LICENSE = "GPLv2"
> > LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
> > SECTION = "base"
> > SRC_URI = "file://mkcard.txt \
> >           file://COPYING.patch"
> > PR = "r3"
> >
> > do_configure() {
> >        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/mkcard.txt ${S}/
> > }
> >
> > do_install() {
> >        install -d ${D}${base_sbindir}
> >        install -m 0755 ${S}/mkcard.txt ${D}${base_sbindir}/mkcard
> > }
> >
> > BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
> > ---
> >
> > Everything works fine, but I don't see 'mkcard' in /sbin in sysroots
> > directory. I'd like to install it there. I tried looking at other
> > scripts to see the right way to do it but I'm not sure of a clean way
> > to do so. I looked at the staging.bbclass and it seems to only pickup
> > libs and headers.
> 
> When using a custom do_install, with BBCLASSEXTEND, afaik you need to
> set NATIVE_INSTALL_WORKS = "1" to get its files into the sysroot for
> the native version.

For OE-dev you do but this shouldn't be necessary any more with OE-Core
since there is no legacy staging.

In this case I wonder if the -native version or the target version is
being run? We only install libs and headers for the target version but
the binaries should be present for the -native recipe and be installed
to the native sysroot...

Cheers,

Richard