The user manual said: 'cleandirs' - directories which should created before the task runs but should be empty But it only removes the dir, doesn't create it, and "should" -> "should be".
Merged: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=1d3a139016f4403cf406cb6e96d95e665945fe93 http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=4722965f823da72cb3300c432d523c9f213b952d