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Using Make for Easy Yocto Builds On Intel Edison

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Using Make for Easy Yocto Builds On Intel Edison This documentation goes though the process of building a Yocto Linux image via simple make files for the Intel Edison board. The make file method for building Yocto images is much simpler than the manual build methods. The make files provided by Intel in the BSP Edison source package wrap the build process with scripts to make building an extremely simple process. Most of the base steps found in this documentation were based on Intels Board Support Package (BSP) User Guide. The BSP User Guide can be found here. Also note, all of these steps were tested in Ubuntu Linux 14.04 x64 LTS. As of this writing, this OS/Version has the most support for doing Edison source builds. I have done these steps in other operating systems, but the process is not as clean due to bugs, script tweaks, etc. Create a Directory for Building the Image This step is optional, but I find it useful to create a directory for keeping my builds organized. If yo...