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@@ -484,6 +484,30 @@ the ":ref:`sdk-manual/appendix-obtain:building an sdk installer`"
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section in the Yocto Project Application Development and the Extensible
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Software Development Kit (eSDK) manual.
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+.. _structure-build-tmp-hosttools:
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+
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+``build/tmp/hosttools/``
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+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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+
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+The OpenEmbedded build system uses this directory to create symbolic links to
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+some of the host components that are allowed to be called within tasks. These
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+are basic components listed in the :ref:`ref-manual/system-requirements:required
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+packages for the build host` section. These components are also listed in the
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+:term:`HOSTTOOLS` variable and are limited to this list to prevent host
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+contamination.
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+
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+.. _structure-build-tmp-pkgdata:
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+
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+``build/tmp/pkgdata/``
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+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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+
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+The OpenEmbedded build system uses this directory to store package metadata
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+generated during the :ref:`ref-tasks-packagedata` task. The files stored in this
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+directory contain information about each output package produced by the
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+OpenEmbedded build system, and are used in different ways by the build system
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+such as ":ref:`dev-manual/debugging:viewing package information with
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+\`\`oe-pkgdata-util\`\``".
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+
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.. _structure-build-tmp-sstate-control:
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``build/tmp/sstate-control/``
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@@ -657,8 +681,15 @@ Here are key subdirectories within each recipe work directory:
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For efficiency, the OpenEmbedded build system creates and uses this
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directory to hold recipes that share a work directory with other
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-recipes. In practice, this is only used for ``gcc`` and its variants
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-(e.g. ``gcc-cross``, ``libgcc``, ``gcc-runtime``, and so forth).
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+recipes. This is for example used for ``gcc`` and its variants (e.g.
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+``gcc-cross``, ``libgcc``, ``gcc-runtime``, and so forth), or by the
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+:ref:`ref-classes-kernel` class to make the kernel source code and kernel build
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+artifacts available to out-of-tree kernel modules or other kernel-dependent
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+recipes.
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+
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+In practice, only a few recipes make use of the ``work-shared`` directory. This
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+directory is especially useful for recipes that would induce a lot of storage
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+space if they were to be shared with the standard :term:`Sysroot` mechanism.
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.. _structure-meta:
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