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From: Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:33:48 +0200
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Cc: Alan Martinovic <Alan.Martinovic@zenitel.com>

Hi Alan,

On Tuesday 23 September 2014 09:11:32 Alan Martinovic wrote:
> I'm adding a custom application into the build system and I'm having
> undefined issues with install_copy. I have defined the rule as follows:
>
> *$(MYLIB_SOURCE_LOCAL) is the path where the binaries are located. (osela=
s.project/build/mylib -1234)

Please don't use whitespaces in path names.

> $(STATEDIR)/mylib.targetinstall:
>                 @$(call targetinfo)
>                 @$(call install_init, mylib)
>                 @$(call install_fixup, mylib,PRIORITY,optional)
>                 @$(call install_fixup, mylib,SECTION,base)
>                 @$(call install_fixup, mylib,AUTHOR,"<>")
>                 @$(call install_fixup, mylib,DESCRIPTION,missing)
>
>                 @$(call install_copy, mylib, 0, 0, 0755, $(MYLIB_SOURCE_L=
OCAL)/mylib.a, /usr/lib/mylib.a)
>                 @$(call install_copy, mylib, 0, 0, 0755, $(MYLIB_SOURCE_L=
OCAL)/include/mylib.h, /usr/include/mylib.h)
>
>                 @$(call install_finish, mylib)
>                 @$(call touch)
>
> When I run targetinstall I get the following error:
> install file:
>   src=3Doselas.project/build/mylib -1234
>   dst=3D/usr/lib/libzxmlconfig.a
>   owner=3D0
>   group=3D0
>   permissions=3D0755
>
> install: omitting directory
> '/home/user/Workspace/oselas.project/build/mylib -1234

Your output here does not match to your shown rule file content above.

> For some reason it doesn't append the /mylib.a to the path. Any ideas on
> this?

Remove the whitespace from the path name.

BTW: why do you want to install a library archive? *.a archives are used at
link time only and not used at runtime. Same is valid for header files. They
are used at compile time only.

Regards
Juergen

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