[bitbake-devel] About bitbake-runtask

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 17:29 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> The bitbake-runtask doesn't work currently, it seems that we have decommissioned it:
> 
> commit 1f3e313fd5cc5ae8ea838bf8fcdedace3cb72584
> Author: Richard Purdie <rpurdie at linux.intel.com>
> Date:   Wed Dec 8 00:08:04 2010 +0000
> 
>      bitbake Revert bitbake exec() and go back to fork() for performace wins 
> (first draft)
> 
> But it is still in bitbake/bin/bitbake-runtask. There is a bug for tracking
> this, what shall we do for it? Remove the bitbake-runtask or fix it and make
> it work?
> 
> Bug 1229 - bitbake-runtask doesn't work in both 1.0.1 and 1.1

Since I know that script has user and a valid use case we need to:

a) Fix this to work after the fork() changes
b) Include it in bitbake upstream

b) never happened due to a).

Cheers,

Richard