Build directories

Let's have a quick look at the WORKDIR directory. Most of these directories are created and populated when the related task is executed. To have a look at it, let's execute the following command:

$ tree tmp/work/cortexa8hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/helloworld/0.1-r0/ -dL 1

Here is the output of this command:

tmp/work/cortexa8hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/helloworld/0.1-r0/
├── deploy-ipks
├── image
├── license-destdir
├── package
├── packages-split
├── patches
├── pkgdata
├── pseudo
├── sysroot-destdir
└── temp

Let's go through these by giving a short description of each:

• deploy-ipks: The final package (ipk in our case) is placed in this directory.

• image: Image contents go into this directory. The Do_install task installs contents to this directory before they are added to the respective packages.

• license-destdir: License-related information is contained in this directory.

• package: This is a shared place that contains package data when it is being generated, during the...