manually

  http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6.1/adt-manual/adt-manual.html
    5.1.1. Creating and Running a Project Based on GNU Autotools

  bitbake libsdl2-image -c devshell
  aclocal -Iaclocal-copy
  touch NEWS README AUTHORS ChangeLog
  automake -a
  ./configure --host=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi
  make
  make install DESTDIR=$(pwd)/tmp
  tree tmp
    tmp
    `-- usr
        `-- local
            |-- include
            |   `-- SDL2
            |       `-- SDL_image.h
            `-- lib
                |-- libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0 -> libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0.0.0
                |-- libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0.0.0
                |-- libSDL2_image.a
                |-- libSDL2_image.la
                |-- libSDL2_image.so -> libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0.0.0
                `-- pkgconfig
                    `-- SDL2_image.pc

  file tmp/usr/local/lib/libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0.0.0
    tmp/usr/local/lib/libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0.0.0: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=c524a801232da836d0d14325817fa215d5bd8a95, not stripped
=> OK