[oe] Howto create a bitbake recipe

[Vitus Jensen]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Vitus Jensen wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, AJ ONeal wrote:
>
>>  I don't know very much about this - only what I've seen discussed on the
>>  mailing list.
>
> And you probably searched recipes/ before writing your own?  This is my main 
> source of informationen.
>
>>  I've created a template and given my just-submitted recipe as an example.
>>
>>  If you know bitbake and OE policies, please share the wealth:
>>  http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/How_to_create_a_bitbake_recipe_for_dummies
>
> I don't think you should not use method overrides in the example (the wiki 
> list those overrides as things to avoid), just use the simpliest form of a 
> recipe there and refer to the OE usermanual from that page for additional 
> features, that URL: 
> http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/usermanual.html#chapter_recipes
>
> =====
> DESCRIPTION = ""
> HOMEPAGE = ""
> LICENSE = ""
> DEPENDS = ""
> PR = "r0"  # Package Revision, update this whenever you change the recipe.
>
> SRC_URI = " http://server/${PN}-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
> 	 file://fix-crosscompile.patch \
> 	 "
> SRC_URI[md5sum] = ""
> SRC_URI[sha256sum] = ""
> =====
>
> More isn't needed (some may argue about PR) and writing more may actually 
> harm.

Sorry, there was an important line missing:

inherit cmake
-or-
inherit autotools
-or-
inherit your-build-system

Vitus

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