[bitbake-devel] About bitbake-runtask

[Robert Yang]

Hi experts,

I'm trying to fix it, but it seems it's not easy for me to finish it
by Aug. 24th, it would be great if anyone can help me.

The bug is:

Bug 1229 - bitbake-runtask doesn't work in both 1.0.1 and 1.1

Thank you very much!

// Robert

On 08/12/2011 03:24 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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
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