[OE-core] Automatically creating tar files for bin_package.bbclass

[Burton, Ross]

On 4 July 2016 at 16:00, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Say I have a proprietary library which only I can build from source
> and I have a conventional recipe which builds it within OE. I would
> now like to create a tar file of the library and headers etc, plus a
> companion recipe based on bin_package.bbclass to allow others to make
> use of the library in their OE builds. ie the situation described
> here:
>
>
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.1/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#packaging-externally-produced-binaries
>
> Is there a recommended way to create the tar file to support that?
> e.g. a class which automatically creates a deployable tar file of a
> recipe's ${D} directory?
>

You *may* be able to use package_tar in the recipe in some way to achieve
this.

Ross
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