[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] bitbake: support $BITBAKE_UI environment

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Wed May 23 10:30:12 UTC 2012


On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 17:19 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Patch adds support for a $BITBAKE_UI environment variable which allows
> to configure the preferred user interface. Although an '-u' option
> (which will override the environment variable) exists already, it was
> required to specify this option on every invocation of bitbake.
> 
> Because user interface is instanciated very early in the program it is
> not possible to use bitbake.conf for setting up a default.  An
> environment variable (which acts in a similar category like $PAGER or
> $EDITOR) is a simple way for configuring the default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at sigma-chemnitz.de>
> ---
>  bin/bitbake   |    9 +++++----
>  doc/bitbake.1 |    6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Merged to master, thanks.

Richard





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