Mastering Embedded Linux Programming - Second Edition

Configuring

As with Buildroot, let's begin with a build for the QEMU ARM emulator. Begin by sourcing a script to set up the environment:

$ cd poky$ source oe-init-build-env

This creates a working directory for you named build/ and makes it the current directory. All of the configuration, intermediate, and target image files will be put in this directory. You must source this script each time you want to work on this project.

You can choose a different working directory by adding it as a parameter to oe-init-build-env, for example:

$ source oe-init-build-env build-qemuarm

This will put you into the directory: build-qemuarm/ . This way you can have several build directories, each for a different project: you choose which one you want to ...