[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 1/6] bitbake: add note to -b option indicating no dependency handling

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Fri Jul 22 17:30:30 UTC 2011


The -b option doesn't handle dependencies so note this in the help.

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
---
 bitbake/bin/bitbake |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bitbake/bin/bitbake b/bitbake/bin/bitbake
index 206d97b..f198fd1 100755
--- a/bitbake/bin/bitbake
+++ b/bitbake/bin/bitbake
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ It expects that BBFILES is defined, which is a space separated list of files to
 be executed.  BBFILES does support wildcards.
 Default BBFILES are the .bb files in the current directory.""")
 
-    parser.add_option("-b", "--buildfile", help = "execute the task against this .bb file, rather than a package from BBFILES.",
+    parser.add_option("-b", "--buildfile", help = "execute the task against this .bb file, rather than a package from BBFILES. Does not handle any dependencies.",
                action = "store", dest = "buildfile", default = None)
 
     parser.add_option("-k", "--continue", help = "continue as much as possible after an error. While the target that failed, and those that depend on it, cannot be remade, the other dependencies of these targets can be processed all the same.",
-- 
1.7.4.1





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