Understanding the work directory

The build/tmp/work directory is organized by architecture. For example, when working with the qemux86-64 machine, we have the following four directories:

Figure 6.2 – The contents of the build/tmp/work directory

Figure 6.2 shows an example of possible directories under build/tmp/work for an x86-64 host and a qemux86-64 target. They are architecture- and machine-dependent, as follows:

• all-poky-linux: This directory contains the working build directories for the architecture-agnostic packages. These are mostly scripts or interpreted language-based packages, for example, Perl scripts and Python scripts.
• core2-64-poky-linux: This directory contains the working build directories for the packages common to x86-64-based targets using the optimization tuned for core2-64.
• qemux86_64-poky-linux: This directory contains the working build directories for packages specific to the qemux86-64 machine.
• x86_64...