Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

We can use the archiver and license classes to provide the deliverables that need to be distributed to comply with the licenses. We can configure our build to:

• Provide the original unpatched source as tarballs
• Provide patches to apply to the original source
• Provide recipes used to build the source
• Provide the license text that must sometimes accompany the binary (according to some licenses)

To use the archiver class to provide source, patches, and recipes as specified earlier, we add the following to our conf/local.conf file:

INHERIT += "archiver" 
ARCHIVER_MODE[src] = "original" 
ARCHIVER_MODE[diff] = "1" 
ARCHIVER_MODE[recipe] = "1" 

To configure the license class to provide licensing information, we do this:

COPY_LIC_MANIFEST ...