recipetool
automates creation of
a base recipe given a set of source code files.
As long as you can extract or point to the source files,
the tool will construct a recipe and automatically
configure all pre-build information into the recipe.
For example, suppose you have an application that builds
using Autotools.
Creating the base recipe using
recipetool
results in a recipe
that has the pre-build dependencies, license requirements,
and checksums configured.
To run the tool, you just need to be in your
Build Directory
and have sourced the build environment setup script
(i.e.
oe-init-build-env
or
oe-init-build-env-memres
).
Here is the basic recipetool
syntax:
recipetool -h recipetool create [-h] recipetool [-d] [-q] [--color auto | always | never ] create [-oOUTFILE
] [-m] [-xEXTERNALSRC
]source
-d Enables debug output. -q Outputs only errors (quiet mode). --color Colorizes the output automatically, always, or never. -h Displays Python generated syntax for recipetool. create Causes recipetool to create a base recipe. The create command is further defined with these options: -oOUTFILE
Specifies the full path and filename for the generated recipe. -m Causes the recipe to be machine-specific rather than architecture-specific (default). -xEXTERNALSRC
Fetches and extracts source files fromsource
and places them inEXTERNALSRC
.source
must be a URL. -h Displays Python-generated syntax for create.source
Specifies the source code on which to base the recipe.
Running recipetool
creates the base
recipe and locates it properly in the layer that contains
your source files.
Following are some syntax examples:
Use this syntax to generate a recipe based on source
.
Once generated, the recipe resides in the existing source
code layer:
recipetool create source
Use this syntax to generate a recipe using code that you
extract from source
.
The extracted code is placed in its own layer defined
by EXTERNALSRC
.
recipetool create -xEXTERNALSRC
source
Use this syntax to generate a recipe and override the
tool's default placement of the recipe by specifying both
its location and name using OUTFILE
.
recipetool create -oOUTFILE
source
Use this syntax to generate a recipe based on source
.
The options direct recipetool
to
run in "quiet mode" and to generate debugging information.
Once generated, the recipe resides in the existing source
code layer:
recipetool create -oOUTFILE
source