[bitbake-devel] how easy to extend "bitbake -e" to print *selected* subset of variables?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Chris Larson wrote:

> Yeah, that quick script just ran bitbake -e, not bitbake -e
> <provider>. You could modify it easily enough to support that,
> though.

  hang on ... i actually did just that to search the output of:

$ bitbake -e linux-omap4

but i still don't see a number of variables i'm interested in, and i'm
not sure how to do that.

> You could also try out https://gist.github.com/4133101. It's just a
> quick prototype. Drop it next to bitbake in bitbake/bin/. It fixes a
> couple minor annoyances with bitbake -e and it sends all the bitbake
> log output from stdout to stderr, so you can redirect that
> independently of the emitted variables and values.
>
> Usage examples:
>
>     bitbake-env DISTRO MACHINE do_configure
>     bitbake-env -r virtual/kernel FILE
>     eval $(bitbake-env TMPDIR | grep -v '^#')

  ok, i'll check that out, thanks.

rday

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