Provides an easy means to work on developing applications and system
components with the build system.
For example to "modify" the source for an existing recipe:
$ devtool modify -x pango /home/projects/pango
Parsing recipes..done.
NOTE: Fetching pango...
NOTE: Unpacking...
NOTE: Patching...
NOTE: Source tree extracted to /home/projects/pango
NOTE: Recipe pango now set up to build from /home/paul/projects/pango
The pango source is now extracted to /home/paul/projects/pango, managed
in git, with each patch as a commit, and a bbappend is created in the
workspace layer to use the source in /home/paul/projects/pango when
building.
Additionally, you can add a new piece of software:
$ devtool add pv /home/projects/pv
NOTE: Recipe /path/to/workspace/recipes/pv/pv.bb has been
automatically created; further editing may be required to make it
fully functional
The latter uses recipetool to create a skeleton recipe and again sets up
a bbappend to use the source in /home/projects/pv when building.
Having done a "devtool modify", can also write any changes to the
external git repository back as patches next to the recipe:
