Directories and installation variables
Yocto Project Openembedded directories installation variables
The following table provides a list of the variables that are used to control the directories into which files are installed. These variables can be used directly by the recipe to refer to paths that will be used after the package is installed.
Variable name Definition Typical value prefix /usr /usr base_prefix (empty) (empty) exec_prefix ${base_prefix} (empty) base_bindir ${base_prefix}/bin /bin base_sbindir ${base_prefix}/sbin /sbin base_libdir ${base_prefix}/lib /lib datadir ${prefix}/share /usr/share sysconfdir /etc /etc localstatedir /var /var infodir ${datadir}/info /usr/share/info mandir ${datadir}/man /usr/share/man docdir ${datadir}/doc /usr/share/doc servicedir /srv /srv bindir ${exec_prefix}/bin /usr/bin sbindir ${exec_prefix}/sbin /usr/sbin libexecdir ${exec_prefix}/libexec /usr/libexec libdir ${exec_prefix}/lib /usr/lib includedir ${exec_prefix}/include /usr/include palmtopdir ${libdir}/opie /usr/lib/opie palmqtdir ${palmtopdir} /usr/lib/opie