Understanding the sysroot directories
The sysroot directory plays a critical role in the Yocto Project. It creates an individual and isolated environment for each recipe. This environment, set for each recipe, is essential to ensure reproducibility and avoid contamination with the host machine’s packages.
After we build the procps recipe, version 3.3.17, we get two sets of sysroot directories – recipes-sysroot and recipes-sysroot-native.
Inside each sysroot set, there is a sub-directory called sysroot-provides. This directory lists the packages installed on each respective sysroot. Following is the recipe-sysroot directory:
Figure 6.5 – Content of the recipe-sysroot directory under build/tmp/work for recipe procps
The recipe-sysroot-native directory includes the build dependencies used on the host system during the build process. It encompasses the compiler, linker, tools, and more. At the same time, the recipe-sysroot directory...