5.2.23. build/tmp/work/tunearch/recipename/version/

The recipe work directory - ${WORKDIR}.

As described earlier in the "build/tmp/sysroots/" section, beginning with the 2.6 release of the Yocto Project, the OpenEmbedded build system builds each recipe in its own work directory (i.e. WORKDIR). The path to the work directory is constructed using the architecture of the given build (e.g. TUNE_PKGARCH, MACHINE_ARCH, or "allarch"), the recipe name, and the version of the recipe (i.e. PE:PV-PR).

A number of key subdirectories exist within each recipe work directory: