[yocto] Using files from package dependencies

[Nicolas Dechesne]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Paulo Neves <ptsneves at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for my ambiguity. When I mentioned binaries I meant general
> binary data, not necessarily executable. Their only need is that the
> new recipe needs to be fed these data from the other package so it can
> produce it's own output. This binary data only needs to be available
> in the host pc, in the recipe bake.

in that case, i suppose you can consider these 'binary files' as
development files like other .h or libs, and package them in the -dev
package of the dependency. You can control which files get into the
-dev package using FILES_${PN}-dev in your recipe.