[oe] Writing a test program for libserial

[Phil Blundell]

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:25 +0400, Elvis Dowson wrote:
> If I compare with the other recipes, I don't see the output files in  
> the root folder of the work/recipe i.e. work/armv7a-angstrom-linux- 
> gnueabi/libserial-test-1.6.0-r0/ doesn't contain the output files.

That's just caused by the layout of your source code (loose files in
SRC_URI rather than a tarball).  It isn't anything to worry about.

> This is cause by my do_compile () code, i think
> 
> do_compile () {
>     ${CXX} ${CXXFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} ${WORKDIR}/src/read_port.cpp -o  
> libserial-test-read-port
>     ${CXX} ${CXXFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} ${WORKDIR}/src/write_port.cpp -o  
> libserial-test-write-port
> }

If you wanted to, you could change this to "-o
src/libserial-test-write-port" to make the binaries go into the src/
subfolder.  Of course, then you'd need to adjust your do_install()
method to look for them there rather than in ${WORKDIR}.  Personally I
wouldn't bother: it's fine as it stands.

Also, just as an aside, you don't need to specify the full path to the
source files (i.e. starting with ${WORKDIR}).  The do_compile() method
runs with ${S} as the current directory so you can just refer to them
with relative pathnames if you want.

> inherit autotools_stage
> AUTOTOOLS_STAGE_PKGCONFIG = 1
> 
> do_stage() {
> 	autotools_stage_all
> }

These lines are unnecessary: your recipe doesn't have anything to stage
and, even if it did, it isn't using autotools so these lines wouldn't
help.  You might as well delete them.

p.