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Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects - Second Edition
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Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects - Second Edition

by Otavio Salvador, Daiane Angolini
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
162 pages
4h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Automatically creating a base package recipe using recipetool

The recipetool allows for easier creation of a base recipe based on the source code files. As long as you can extract or point to the source files, the recipetool will generate a recipe and automatically configure all pre-built information into the new recipe file.

To illustrate, assume we have an application that builds using Autotools. When we use the recipetool to create the base recipe, it generates a recipe that has the pre-build dependencies, it inherits the autotools class, sets the license requirements, and checksums.

The recipetool creates a recipe file with several comments that are intended for our understanding of the content. All the comments can be deleted when we ...
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