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Bitbake binary file not found

I am using bitbake to build and deploy my application to my linux build. I was recently made aware that my binary application was not being deployed to /usr/bin. I was told to update my mainapplication.bb to have the following line. install -m 0644 ${S}/MAIN_Application ${D}${bindir} Doing do causes my bitbak…

Yocto boot partition vs boot rootfs directory

I need to mount my boot partition in order to perform software updates in my yocto built. I would expect to mount it in /boot but I see that there is a directory there already I cant seem to find information about what this /boot directory is and why its needed. It contains the same .itb file that is in

How to show hidden sysctl tunable?

I’m on a Yocto Linux distribution and I need to set the sysctl tunable kernel.panic_on_rcu_stall to 1. The problem is when I list the elements inside /proc/sys/kernel I have no panic_on_rcu_stall and if I try to set the option anyway I get the folowing error: I know that the key exist, we can see it on …

What’s the purpose put a .so file before execution file?

I saw a execution method today. I know when putting a bash variable before execution command means to set that environment variable before execute command. But now, it is a share lib, what’s the purpose and function to put there? Answer The dynamic linker /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so is special in that it can be r…