Yocto: bitbake build/populate sysroot
Yocto stops building the global sysroot (both native and cross) from version 2.6. To build any package yocto copies the sysroot as “recipes-sysroot” and “recipes-sysroot-native” into each WORKDIR. This stops the external application builders from using “tmp/sysroots/<MACHINE>” for cross compilation. To do the same way building external application using common sysroot and toolchain one need to build or populate the sysroot explicitly using
This bitbake command explicitly populates the sysroot in “tmp/sysroots/<MACHINE>” and “tmp/sysroots/x86_64 or x86” accordingly. With this application developers can cross compile after exporting the toolchain path “tmp/sysroots/x86_64/usr/bin/<toolchain-name>”. All the dependent cross compiled binaries and libraries can be found under “tmp/sysroots/<MACHINE>”.
You can also use this sysroot to find the provider of a particular file. For example, if you want to use blkid functionality and you don’t know the yocto/bitbake provider for this libraries or binaries to include into your recipe, you can grep for the header/library/binary inside “tmp/sysroots/<MACHINE>” directory. For this case “libblkid.so/blkid.h” is provided by util-linux, which can be obtained from “manifest-armv7ahf-neon-util-linux.populate_sysroot” (machine type may vary according to your target configuration).
