[Openembedded-users] How certain packages are built in OE

[Khem Raj]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Joel A Fernandes <agnel.joel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to understand how certain builds in OE work. I use the
> org.openembedded.dev branch.
>
> There are certain TI specific recipes that strongly depend on each other. For my
> build, I have gstreamer-ti depending on ti-dmai depending on ti-codec-engine.
>
> The build for gstreamer ti completed successfully and I found the shared library
> in its .ipk, however the .ipks for ti-dmai and ti-codec-engine were empty.
> Someone on IRC suggested that this was because those libraries were statically
> linked into the dependants (but I'm not sure if this is the case for
> ti-codec-engine as well).
>
> However I couldn't find these statically linked libraries anywhere in the tmp
> directory. I checked the run.do_install scripts, and found that the INSTALL_DIR
> for codec-engine and dmai were pointing to a certain /sysroots location in the
> tmp directory however this location just contained source code.
>
> I would appreciate it if anyone could briefly explain how it works. Thanks,

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> Joel
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