[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 1/1] cooker.py: Remove explicit build targets from the ignored list

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 08 August 2012 18:19:42 Peter Seebach wrote:
> If something is in ASSUMED_PROVIDED, and a user tries to build it
> explicitly, Nothing Happens. Bitbake just says it ran 0 out of 0
> tasks. No diagnostics or explanations are offered.
> 
> In practice, the right thing is probably to assume that explicit
> targets are intentional. So far as I can tell, cooker.buildTargets
> is called only from the command line or from command.py, and both
> cases seem to be explicit user actions.

I'd rather we not change it to behave this way - the better approach would 
seem to me to be to just print a warning that the requested target is in 
ASSUME_PROVIDED and then not do anything else; if the user really wants to 
build the thing they can just remove it from ASSUME_PROVIDED.

If there is a genuine need to be able to force an item in ASSUME_PROVIDED to 
be built I'd probably want to hear a bit more background.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre